George Berkeley (1685-1753)

Biographical note

Influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of what has come to be called subjective idealism, summed up in his dictum, "To be is to be perceived." He wrote a number of works, the most widely-read of which are his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) and Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713). In 1734 he published The Analyst, a critique of the foundations of science, which was very influential in the subsequent development of mathematics.

Biographical note

• from Wikipedia
• An Account of the Life of George Berkeley, D.D., Late Bishop of Cloyne in Ireland, by Joseph Stock [ offsite ]

Works

• A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710) [ read | download ]
• The Analyst (1734) [ offsite ]
• A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics [ offsite ]

The following works are available from Project Gutenberg:

• Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists [ read | download ]
• Towards a New Theory of Vision [ read | download ]
• The Querist [ read | download ]

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