"Scire per causas' versus 'scire per signa"

George Berkeley and scientific explanation in siris

Silvia Parigi

pp. 107-119

in: Silvia Parigi (ed), George Berkeley, Berlin, Springer, 2011

Abstract

There are some topics, in Berkeley's philosophy, that have always puzzled his interpreters: first of all, the embarrassing concept of aether-spirit and the relations with contemporary science and with ancient hermetic wisdom as they result from his most puzzling, disordered and hermetic work.

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