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Berkeley's Immaterialist Account of Action
- Journal of the History of Philosophy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 44, Number 3, July 2006
- pp. 415-429
- 10.1353/hph.2006.0039
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A number of critics have argued that Berkeley's metaphysics can offer no tenable account of human agency. In this paper I argue that Berkeley does have a coherent account of action. The paper addresses arguments by C.C. W. Taylor, Robert Imlay, and Jonathan Bennett. The paper attempts to show that Berkeley can offer a theory of action, maintain many of our common intuitions about action, and provide a defensible solution to the problem of evil.