Berkeley o naturze umysłu

• Authors: Spryszak Przemysław

Title variants

EN

BERKELEY ON THE NATURE OF THE MIND

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The present essay is concerned with George Berkeley's theory of mind. An outline of his (sketchy) immaterialist theory of mind is presented and some of the principal (and well-known) difficulties are pointed out. The main problem seems to be that his attack on materialism can be easily converted into an attack on his concept of (immaterial) soul. Moreover, Berkeley offers no principle of the identity of minds; hence it is possible to argue that a troublesome consequence of his theory of mind is the possibility of an agnostic conclusion (the paper outlines an analogy between Berkeley's concept of mind and Kant's theory of the transcendental unity of apperception). In the present paper I show that it is possible to overcome these difficulties by formulating Berkeley's philosophy in pragmatic terms.

Keywords

EN

MIND; IMMATERIALIST THEORY OF MIND; SOUL; BERKELEY; KANT

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Umiejętności / Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 39
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 25 - 41

Contributors

author

Spryszak Przemysław

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Grodzka 52, 31 - 044 Kraków, Poland