Species, ideas and idealism: The scholastic and Cartesian background of Berkeley's master argument

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dc.contributor.advisorKulstad, Mark A.en_US
dc.creatorClemenson, David Leeen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T06:30:14Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T06:30:14Zen_US
dc.date.issued2001en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation situates Berkeley's "master argument" for idealism (PHK I, 23 and DHP I, 200) in the context of Descartes' theory of ideas, and seeks to show that within that context the argument is convincing. In addition, the dissertation argues that Descartes' theory of ideas was not representationalist., as is often supposed, but a kind of direct realism; Cartesian ideas render intelligible individuals directly present to the intellect. In this respect Cartesian idea theory is very similar to a theory of species expounded by Antonio Rubio and other Jesuit philosophers at the turn of the seventeenth century; Jesuit writings of this period include several interesting anticipations of Cartesian doctrine. Finally, the dissertation discusses the relationship between Berkeley's master argument and the semantic paradoxes of Berry, Koenig and Richard, and suggests that all these arguments commit a fallacy of vicious circularity, related to but distinct from the fallacy signaled by Bertrand Russell.en_US
dc.format.extent208 p.en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS PHIL. 2001 CLEMENSONen_US
dc.identifier.citationClemenson, David Lee. "Species, ideas and idealism: The scholastic and Cartesian background of Berkeley's master argument." (2001) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17949">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17949</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/17949en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectEuropean historyen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.subjectCognitive psychologyen_US
dc.titleSpecies, ideas and idealism: The scholastic and Cartesian background of Berkeley's master argumenten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentPhilosophyen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanitiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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