Berkeley and Irish Philosophy (Continuum Studies In British Philosophy)

Book Description. 

The first essay in David Berman's new collection examines the full range
 of Berkeley's achievement, looking not only at his classic works of 
1709-1713, but also Alciphron (1732) and his final book, the enigmaic Siris (1744). Item two examines a key problem in Berkeley's New Theory of Vision
 (1709): why does the moon look larger on the horizon than in the 
meridian? The third item criticizes the view, still uncritically 
accepted by many, that Berkeley's attacks on materialism are levelled 
against Locke. 

Part 2 opens with Berman's two essays of 1982 - 
the first to show that Berkeley came from a rich and coherent Irish 
philosophical background. Next comes a discussion of the link between 
Berkeley and Francis Hutcheson, and particularly their answers to the 
Molyneux problem, which Berman takes to be the root problem of Irish 
philosophy. 
The fourth essay looks at the impact of the golden age 
Irish philosophy on eighteenth-century American philosophy, where, 
again, Berkeley has a central position. The last item examines 
Berkeley's influence on Samuel Beckett. 

Part 3 shows the 
many-sidedness of Berkeley's career, which is missed by those who 
concentrate exclusively on his work of 1709-1713. Each item here 
presents new material on Berkeley's life, or on his works and thought; 
most of these are new letters, not included in the Luce-Jessop edition 
of the Works of Berkeley. This section, therefore, can be seen a supplement to volumes 8 and 9 of the Works and also to Luce's Life of Berkeley.