In 'Sensible Qualities and Secondary Qualities in the First Dialogue,' Lisa Downing accomplishes her admittedly 'modest' aim of noting differences between the Principles and the Three Dialogues with respect to Berkeley's attack on material mechanism. As is typical for short reviews of anthologies, I cannot give the proper attention due to each of the articles but will nonetheless strive to mention each of them. The volume does not contain any articles that one might consider groundbreaking or 'new' in the sense of advancing theses or interpretations that have not already been engaged in the secondary literature (often by these same authors themselves). Most of the essays might be new in the sense of first being published in the volume (although that is not true for all of them), but they largely engage issues that are well worn in the Berkeley literature. The volume is a scholarly contribution to early modern literature and worthy of attention and study, but the subtitle is perhaps a bit misleading. Some of the essays are less about the Three Dialogues than about topics that happen to be mentioned in the work, but the overall quality of the articles is relatively even. The topics range broadly from the nature of sense perception to Berkeley's alleged Platonism. The book is unified by the intersection of the individual articles in some manner with the Three Dialogues. One might justly wonder whether it is time to let at least some of the implicit authority of Luce and Jessop in all matters Berkeley fade a bit. That the Three Dialogues is not merely a derivative rehash of the earlier Principles emerges naturally from the philosophical subtleties of their differences. The case is easy enough to make, and the articles in this anthology make it simply through their argumentation and textual analysis. Jessop pronounced that the Principles and not the Three Dialogues is 'the complete and final expression of Berkeley's immaterialism,' Storrie argues (2-3) that there is nonetheless a case to be made for giving the later work a proper place of its own. The editor's introductory chapter is primarily an essay in apologetics: given that A.A. All of the papers have an analytical approach to a variety of philosophical and textual issues that arise in Berkeley's work. Stefan Storrie's anthology dedicated to the Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous comes from papers delivered at a conference in 2014 celebrating the 300 th anniversary of the work's publication in 1713.

A good deal of scholarly work on the Irish philosopher has emerged since the turn of the century, taking Berkeley's thought seriously or at least seriously enough to engage carefully. George Berkeley arguably has risen in the ranks of early modern philosophers in terms of philosophical esteem.

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