An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision
George Berkeley
How do we see distance if the eye only receives flat images? Berkeley's answer, that we learn it through touch and experience, became a landmark of empiricist psychology.
Loading the book...
Keep reading
-
Next in this topic
A Treatise of Human NatureHume's first and most ambitious work, written in his twenties, applies the method of experience to the mind itself. Causation, personal identity and the passions are all put to the test.
Verified PDF · Secure download - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Hume's sharpest book asks how we know cause and effect, and why our habits of expectation are not proof. A short, readable way into empiricist skepticism.
Verified PDF · Secure download - A System of Logic
Mill takes empiricism all the way to logic and mathematics, arguing that even they rest on experience. It also introduces Mill's Methods, still taught as the basics of experimental reasoning.
Verified PDF · Secure download - Decoding British Empiricism - A Distant Reading of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
What happens when you read Locke, Berkeley and Hume with computers? This thesis uses text analysis to reveal how the three British empiricists really shaped each other's ideas.
Verified PDF · Secure download - Locke, Berkeley and Hume - A Brief Survey of Empiricism
A brief survey of the three great British empiricists: Locke's blank slate, Berkeley's immaterialism and Hume's skepticism. Perfect as a first overview before the original texts.
Verified PDF · Secure download
Explore more Philosophy
- Hermeticism
- Ethics
- Books by Famous Philosophers
- General Philosophy
- Existentialism
- Eastern Philosophy
- Political Philosophy
- Hermeneutics