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WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH BERKELEY? AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOLLY (pages 169-186)

Mark P. MALLER ABSTRACT: Berkeley is famous for denying the existence of matter and unperceived things except in God’s eternal mind. Although his subjective idealism (immaterialism) is dismissed and rejected, he is commonly ranked among the great modern philosophers. My analysis questions his epistemic relativism and skepticism, and presents new critical arguments against spiritual immaterialism, and his theory of God …

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