Berkeley vs Walton

A master-class in trolling from an eighteenth-century bishop. By Clare Moriarty George Berkeley is Ireland’s best-known historical philosopher, whose fame rests on being the chief advocate of a pretty peculiar metaphysical position: immaterialism, the view that no mind-independent material objects exist. Historians of mathematics know him as a petulant critic of early calculus. In his ... Read more

Subscribe to History Ireland in print or digital here


View Subscription Options

Already a subscriber? Sign in