Berkeley’s Works

The standard edition of Berkeley’s works is:

• Berkeley, G. (1948–1957). The Works of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne. A.A. Luce and T.E. Jessop (eds.). London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. 9 vols. (Scholar)

The following abbreviations are used to reference Berkeley’s works:

References to these works are by section numbers (or entry numbers, for PC), except for 3D, where they are by page number.

Other useful editions include:

• Berkeley, G. (1944). Philosophical commentaries, generally called the Commonplace book [of] George Berkeley, bishop of Cloyne. A.A. Luce (ed.). London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. (Scholar)
• Berkeley, G. (1975). Philosophical Works; Including the Works on Vision. M. Ayers (ed.). London: Dent. (Scholar)
• Berkeley, G. (1987). George Berkeley’s Manuscript Introduction. B. Belfrage (ed.). Oxford: Doxa. (Scholar)
• Berkeley, G. (1992). De Motu and The Analyst: A Modern Edition with Introductions and Commentary. D. Jesseph (trans. and ed.). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Scholar)

A collection, useful to students, of primary texts constituting background to Berkeley or early critical reactions to Berkeley:

• McCracken, C. J. and I. C. Tipton (eds.), (2000). Berkeley’s Principles and Dialogues: Background Source Materials, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)

Bibliographical studies

• Jessop, T. E. (1973). A bibliography of George Berkeley, by T.E. Jessop. With inventory of Berkeley’s manuscript remains, by A.A. Luce. The Hague: M. Nijhoff. (Scholar)
• Turbayne, C., Ed. (1982). Berkeley: Critical and Interpretive Essays. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Contains a bibliography of George Berkeley 1963–1979.] (Scholar)

References cited

• Atherton, M. (1987). “Berkeley’s Anti-Abstractionism.” In Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley. E. Sosa (ed.). Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 85–102. (Scholar)
• Atherton, M. (1990). Berkeley’s Revolution in Vision. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Atherton, M., Ed. (1994). Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period. Indianapolis: Hackett. (Scholar)
• Atherton, M. (1995). “Berkeley Without God.” In Berkeley’s Metaphysics: Structural, Interpretive, and Critical Essays. R. G. Muehlmann (ed.). University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 231–248. (Scholar)
• Bennett, J. (1971). Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Bolton, M. B. (1987). “Berkeley’s Objection to Abstract Ideas and Unconceived Objects.” In Essays on the Philosophy of George Berkeley. E. Sosa (ed.). Dordrecht: D. Reidel. (Scholar)
• Bracken, H. M. (1965). The Early Reception of Berkeley’s Immaterialism 1710–1733. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. (Scholar)
• Campbell, J. (2002). “Berkeley’s Puzzle.” In Conceivability and Possibility. T. S. Gendler and J. Hawthorne (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 127–143. (Scholar)
• Chappell, V. (1994). “Locke’s theory of ideas.” In The Cambridge Companion to Locke. V. Chappell (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 26–55. (Scholar)
• Cummins, P. (1990). “Berkeley’s Manifest Qualities Thesis.” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 28: 385–401. (Scholar)
• Downing, L. (2005). “Berkeley’s Natural Philosophy and Philosophy of Science.” In The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley. K. P. Winkler (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Fleming, N. (1985). “The Tree in the Quad.” American Philosophical Quarterly, 22: 22–36. (Scholar)
• Gallois, A. (1974). “Berkeley’s Master Argument.” The Philosophical Review, 83: 55–69. (Scholar)
• Jesseph, D. (1993). Berkeley’s Philosophy of Mathematics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Lennon, T. M. (1988). “Berkeley and the Ineffable.” Synthese, 75: 231–250. (Scholar)
• Locke, J. (1975). An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Luce, A. A. (1963). The Dialectic of Immaterialism. London: Hodder & Stoughten. (Scholar)
• Malebranche, N. (1980). The Search After Truth. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press. (Scholar)
• McCracken, C. (1979). “What Does Berkeley’s God See in the Quad?” Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, 61: 280–92. (Scholar)
• McCracken, C. J. (1995). “Godless Immaterialism: On Atherton’s Berkeley.” In Berkeley’s Metaphysics: Structural, Interpretive, and Critical Essays. R. G. Muehlmann (ed.). University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 249–260. (Scholar)
• McKim, R. (1997–8). “Abstraction and Immaterialism: Recent Interpretations.” Berkeley Newsletter, 15: 1–13. (Scholar)
• Muehlmann, R. G. (1992). Berkeley’s Ontology. Indianapolis: Hackett. (Scholar)
• Nadler, S. (1998). “Doctrines of Explanation in Late Scholasticism and in the Mechanical Philosophy.” In The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (Volume 1). D. Garber and M. Ayers (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 513–552. (Scholar)
• Pappas, G. S. (2000). Berkeley’s Thought. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Pitcher, G. (1977). Berkeley. London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Saidel, E. (1993). “Making Sense of Berkeley’s Challenge.” History of Philosophy Quarterly, 10 (4): 325–339. (Scholar)
• Tipton, I. C. (1974). Berkeley: The Philosophy of Immaterialism. London: Methuen & Co Ltd. (Scholar)
• Wilson, M. D. (1999). Ideas and mechanism: essays on early modern philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Winkler, K. P. (1989). Berkeley: An Interpretation. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Winkler, K. P. (2005). The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Yolton, J. W. (1984). Perceptual Acquaintance from Descartes to Reid. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)

Additional Selected Secondary Literature

• Berman, D. (1994). George Berkeley: Idealism and the Man. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Bettcher, Talia Mae (2007). Berkeley’s Philosophy of Spirit: Consciousness, Ontology and the Elusive Subject. London: Continuum. (Scholar)
• Creery, W. E., Ed. (1991). George Berkeley: Critical Assessments. London: Routledge. 3 vols. (Scholar)
• Daniel, Stephen H., Ed. (2007). Reexamining Berkeley’s Philosophy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. (Scholar)
• Fogelin, R. J. (2001). Berkeley and the Principles of Human Knowledge. London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Foster, J. and H. Robinson, Eds. (1985). Essays on Berkeley: A Tercentennial Celebration. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Roberts, John Russell (2007). A Metaphysics for the Mob. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Stoneham, T. (2002). Berkeley’s World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Urmson, J. O. (1982). Berkeley. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)