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OUT-OF-PRINT BERKELEY BOOKS

• Short introductions to Berkeley
• Primary texts by Berkeley
• Primary contextual texts
• Biographies
• Textbooks on Berkeley & related philosophers
• Monographs
• Collections of essays
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SHORT INTRODUCTIONS

PRIMARY TEXTS

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A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge, 1734
355 pages. Scolar Press, Menston (1971). ISBN 0854176012, 0854176004. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Work [sic] on Vision
MacMillan Pub Co (June 1963). Paperback: ISBN 0672602679. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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The Principles of Human Knowledge; and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
by George berkeley, edited & introduced by by Geoffrey J. Warnock
Peter Smith Publisher (January 1990). Hardback: 0875484468 (USA). Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge
ISBN 0854176004. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Selections from Berkeley
editor by Alexander Campbell Fraser [?].
Ayer Co Pub (June 1972). Hardback: ISBN 0836968735. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Turbayne

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Berkeley's Philosophical Writings
edited with an introduction by David M. Armstrong [?]
384 pages. Collier Books, New York (1965) ISBN 0020641702. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Philosophical Works Including the Works of [sic] Vision
ISBN 0460104837. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Philosophical Commentaries by George Berkeley
Transcribed from the manuscript and edited with an introduction and index by George H. Thomas, explanatory notes by A.A. Luce
xxxiv+353 pages. (a) First published by Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio (circa 1976), xxxiv+353 pages. (b) Reissued by Garland Pub., New York (1989). ISBN 0824024400. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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PRIMARY CONTEXTUAL TEXTS

BIOGRAPHIES OF BERKELEY

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Jessop & Luce

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A bibliography of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne: his works and his critics in the eighteenth century
by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-)
xxvii+285 pages. Facsimile published by Clarendon Press, an imprint of Oxford University Press (1976). ISBN 0198181612 . Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Berkeley
by David Berman (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin)
ISBN 0389209570. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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George Berkeley: Eighteenth Century Responses
(Philosophy of George Berkeley)
by David Berman (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin)
2 volumes. Garland Pub., New York (1989). ISBN 0824024443. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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George Berkeley
by Weld
ISBN 0846203006. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Berkeley
(Past Masters)
J.O. Urmson (Emeritus Professor of Stanford University and an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford), General Editor Keith Thomas
90 pages. Oxford Paperbacks, an imprint of Oxford University Press (1982). Paperback: ISBN 0192875469 & 0192875477. Out of print & out of stock (4th May 2000 USA), but reissued as a section of a larger book.

This was originally published as one volume in the large OUP series, 'Past Masters'. After it had passed out of print, however, it was combined ten years later with two other volumes in the same series (Dunn's Locke and Ayer's Hume) in a new book, The British Empiricists: Locke, Berkeley, Hume by John Dunn, J.C. Urmson, and A.J. Ayer. This is still in print and is listed in the main file,

Book cover: "'Being in company with a gentleman who thought fit to maintain Dr Berkeley's ingenious philosophy, that nothing exists but as perceived by some mind; when the gentleman was going away, Johnson said to him, "Pray, Sir, don't leave us; for we may perhaps forget to think of you, and then you will cease to exist".'

Taken out of context, the famous doctrine here ridiculed by Johnson, and its corollary, that there is no such thing as matter, are easy to misunderstand and underestimate. But by viewing Berkeley against a wider intellectual background than is customary, J.O. Urmson achieves an unusually sympathetic assessment of his philosophy. He sees Berkeley's work as a serious critical analysis of the scientific thought of Newton and his predecessors, and of its metaphysical basis. He starts with a chapter on the philosophy of science accepted from Galileo to Newton, and uses this as a basis for his discussion of Berkeley's writings. He gives a clear account of the relationship between Berkeley's metaphysics and his analysis of the concepts of science and common sense. He shows, too, that Berkeley anticipated by more than two centuries a version of utilitarianism usually thought of as belonging to our own time.

J.O. Urmson is an Emeritus Professor of Stanford University and an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of Philosophical Analysis and The Emotive Theory of Ethics, and editor of The Encyclopaedia of Western Philosophy."

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Berkeley
by Harry McFarland Bracken
173 pages. Macmillan, London (1974). ISBN: 0333116569 and 0312075952. Out of print & out of stock, 4-MAY-2000.

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TEXTBOOKS ON BERKELEY & RELATED PHILOSOPHERS

MONOGRAPHS

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Warnock

"Berkeley is one of the most influential and yet most misunderstood of 18th century philosophers. In this new, revised edition of his classic introduction, G.J. Warnock examines all Berkeley's major philosophical works and discusses his most original and interesting contributions to questions still debated by philosophers today. The aim of the book is to help the reader learn not so much about Berkeley, but rather through Berkeley, something about philosophy itself."

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Berkeley and Malebranche: A Study in the Origins of Berkeley's Thought
A.A. (Arthur Aston) Luce
xxii+214 pages. Garland Pub., New York (1988). ISBN 0824024427. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Berkeley: An Introduction
by Jonathan Dancy (Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading)
165 pages. Basil Blackwell, Oxford and New York (1987). ISBN 0631155090. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Berkeley: The Central Arguments
by A.C. Grayling
xii+218 pages. Open Court, LaSalle, Illinois (circa 1986). ISBN 0812690370. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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New Studies in Berkeley's Philosophy
by Warren E. Steinkraus
xiv+199 pages. (a) First published Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York (1966). (b) Reissued by University Press of America, Lanham, MD (1981). ISBN 0819120073 & 0819120065. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS

Turbayne

A collection of essays edited by Turbayne.

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Doney

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Berkeley on Vision: A Nineteenth-Century Debate
edited by George Pitcher
Garland Pub., New York (1988). ISBN 0824024354. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Promoting prosperity: two eighteenth century tracts
135 + 15 + 70 pages. Arno Press, New York (1972). ISBN 0405041330 Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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The querist
by George Berkeley
ISBN 0854092536 Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Complementary notions A critical study of Berkeley's theory of concepts
by Désirée Park
x+195 pages. Nijhoff, The Hague (1972). ISBN 9024713382. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Berkeley's Theory of Vision: A Critical Examination of Bishop Berkeley's Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
by D.M. (David Malet) Armstrong
106 pages. Garland Pub., New York (1988). ISBN 0824024486. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Vision: Variations on Some Berkeleian Themes
by Robert Schwartz
vii+162 pages. Basil Blackwell, Oxford UK and Cambridge USA (1994). ISBN 1557865361 & 1557862206. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Berkeley's philosophy of science
by Richard J. Brook
210 pages. M. Nijhoff, The Hague (1973) ISBN 9024715555. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Completing Berkeley's Project: Classical Vs. Modern Philosophy
by Theodore Young
x+212 pages. University Press of America, lanham (circa 1985). ISBN 0819149454 & 0819149462. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Sight and Touch : An Attempt to Disprove the Received (Or Berkeleian Theory of Vision)
by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1829-1913)
iv+178 pages. Garland, New York (1988). ISBN 0824024346. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Philosophers of the enlightenment: Locke, Hume and Berkeley revisited
by Gerald Hanratty
93 pages. Four Courts Press, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland, and Portland, OR (1995). ISBN 1851822011. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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George Berkeley: Essays and Replies
author unknown.
ISBN 0716523957. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Berkeley: A Collection of Critical Essays
edited by C.B. Martin and D.M. Armstrong
455 pages. Garland Pub., New York (1988). ISBN 0824024397. Out of print & out of date.

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Berkeley's Doctrine of Notions: A Reconstruction Based on his Theory of Meaning
by Daniel E. Flage (1951-)
226 pages. St. Martin's Press, New York (1987). ISBN 0312002084. Out of print & out of stock, 4 May 2000.

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Essays on Berkeley : A Tercentennial Celebration
edited by John Foster & Howard Robinson
256 pages. Clarendon Press, an imprint of Oxford University Press, Oxford; and Oxford University Press, New York (1985). ISBN 0198244800 Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Real in the Ideal : Berkeley's Relation to Kant
(The Philosophy of George Berkeley, volume 4) by R.C.S. Walker
xxxv+317 pages. Garland Pub., New York (1989). ISBN 0824024478 Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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UNCLASSIFIED

NON-ENGLISH BOOKS

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Berkeleys Theorie der visuellen Sprache Gottes : ihre Bedeutung für die Philosophie des Immaterialismus und ihre historischen Wurzeln
von Martina Fau (1963-)
185 pages. P. Lang, Frankfurt-am-Main & New York (circa 1993). ISBN 3631462670. Out of print & out of stock (11-MAY-2000.)

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Berkeley und der Demiurg: Requiem auf das Spiel in der Sackgasse
von Heinz Risse
68 pages. Merlin, Vastorf (1983). ISBN 3875361563. [Amazon US gives no publisher, date, or pages. Details surmised from this title\'s entry in the Library of Congress.] Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Der Operative Begriff des Geistes: Locke, Berkeley, Hume
by Ram Adhar Mall (1937-)
352 pages. Verlag K. Alber, Freiburg (c1984). ISBN 3495475621. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Filozofia G. Berkeleya--idealizm czy realizm
by Jan W. Sarna
75 pages. Wydawn. Uniwersytetu Opolskiego, Opole (1996). ISBN 8385678646. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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George Berkeley : vernachlässigte Ressourcen des logischen Positivismus
by Heinrich Wintzer
vii+252 pages. P. Lang, Frankfurt-am-Main & New York (circa 1998). ISBN 363132121X. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Philosophie aus der Besinnung des Denkens auf sich selbst: Berkeley und Kant
by Elke Stadelmann
236 pages. P. Lang, Frankfurt-am-Main & New York (circa 1999). ISBN 3631342195 . Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Versuch über eine neue Theorie des Sehens; und, Die Theorie des Sehens oder der visuellen Sprache ... verteidigt und erklärt
by George Berkeley, übersetzt und herausgegeben von Wolfgang Breidert, unter Mitwirkung von Horst Zehe
xxxix+193 pages. Meiner, Hamburg (c1987). ISBN 3787307168. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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Il mondo visibile: George Berkeley e la "perspectiva"
by Silvia Parigi
226 pages. L.S. Olschki, Firenze (1995). ISBN 8822243269. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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L'oeuvre de Berkeley
by Pierre Dubois (1923-)
159 pages. J. Vrin, Paris (1985). ISBN 2711608816. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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La visione e il linguaggio: considerazioni sull'applicabilità del modello linguistico all'esperienza
by Paolo Spinicci, introduzione di Giovanni Piana.
157 pages. Guerini, Milano (1992). ISBN 8878023477. Out of print & out of stock (4-MAY-2000).

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