George Berkeley Alciphron in Focus Philosophers in Focus Series

Introduction, David Berman; Part 1 Alciphron, George Berkeley; The First Dialogue; The Third Dialogue; The Fourth Dialogue; The Seventh Dialogue; Chapter 1 From Divine Analogy(1733) pp. 475–9, 521–5, 537–40, Peter Browne; Chapter 2 ‘Additions and Corrections’ from Inquiry into Beauty and Virtue(4th Edn, 1738), Francis Hutcheson; Chapter 3 From Philosophical Works(1754), Vol. 1, pp. 176–81, Lord Bolingbroke; Chapter 4, J.S. Mill; Chapter 5 From English Thought in the Eighteenth Century(1876), Leslie Stephen; Chapter 6 Berkeley on Beauty, J.O. Urmson; Chapter 7 Berkeley’s Divine Language Argument, A. David Kline; Chapter 8 Cognitive Theology and Emotive Mysteries in Berkeley’s Alciphron, David Berman; Chapter 9 Was Berkeley a Precursor of Wittgenstein?, Antony Flew;

David Berman is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. His publications include A History of Atheism: From Hobbes to Russell (1990) and a number of works on Berkeley. He is editor of the Berkeley Newsletter.