"This is a good collection. I like putting the Dialogues and Principles together this way. Berkeley is important and generally ignored. His arguments against Locke's notion of objectivity are powerful and need to be heard."

--Patrick J. Mitchell, St. John's Seminary

"This is by far the best edition of Berkeley for college students. The introduction is brief and to the point. The explanatory notes are extremely clear and helpful, they can be used by the instructor to organize the course. This edition is a model."

--P. Kerszberg, Pennsylvania State University

"A clear and manageable book whose organization renders it an exceedingly useful classroom text."

--Peter Fosc, Hollins College

"A good classical text."

--E.J. McCullough, North Dakots State University

Oxford University Press Web Site, March, 2003

Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosphers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth-century, he also set the scene for the continental idealism of Hegel and even the philsophy of Marx. This edition of Berkeley's two key works has an introduction which examines and in part defends his arguments for idealism, as well as offering a detailed analytical contents list, extensive philosophical notes, and an index.