The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley

I was there when this book came for review: if I had not been there, perhaps, it would not have come, or even existed. Yet, because I was able to perceive it (at least, thought so), then it became real: esse was percipi. We are, then, in the world of ideas and minds. Idealism, which is what we always associate with George Berkeley (1685-1753), one of the most interesting and controversial philosophers of the early modern period, claims that “everything that exists is either a mind or in a mind”. At the time, his views were contested (his science...