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A Pragmatic Bishop: George Berkeley's Theory of Causation in De motu
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2022)
In this doctoral thesis, I will argue that in his De motu (1721, 'On motion'), Bishop George Berkeley (c.1684-1753) develops a pragmatist theory of causation regarding mechanical theories outlined previously with Newtonianism. ...
Berkeley's Analyst: Rigour and Rhetoric
(King's College London, 2018)
Consider the following puzzle: in 1732, Berkeley published Alciphron, and with it a
sweeping pragmatic vindication of concepts whose terms fail to represent clear
ideas. In that pragmatic semantics, he uses mathematical ...