George Berkeley (/ˈbɑːrkli/ BARK-lee; 12 March 1685 – 14 January 1753) – known as Bishop Berkeley (Bishop of Cloyne of the Anglican Church of Ireland)...
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is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and Emeryville to the south and the...
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philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and is the founding campus of the University of California system. Berkeley has an...
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George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley, KB (1601 – 10 August 1658) was a seventeenth-century English nobleman and a prominent patron of literature in his...
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George Berkeley (1685–1753) was an Irish philosopher and Anglican bishop. George Berkeley or Berkley may also refer to: George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley...
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California, Berkeley, a public university in Berkeley, California George Berkeley (1685–1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher Berkeley may also refer to: Berkeley, New...
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George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley, PC, FRS (c. 1628 – 10 October 1698) was an English merchant, politician and peer who sat in the House of Commons...
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Sir George Cranfield Berkeley, GCB (10 August 1753 – 25 February 1818) was a Royal Navy officer. An admiral, he was highly popular yet controversial in...
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George Berkeley, 1st Earl of Berkeley, 9th Baron Berkeley (1627–1698), son (created Earl of Berkeley in 1679) Charles Berkeley, 2nd Earl of Berkeley,...
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Passive obedience (section George Berkeley)
describing this doctrine was Bishop George Berkeley's A Discourse on Passive Obedience (1712). The tract is considered Berkeley's major contribution to moral...
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George Fitz-Hardinge Berkeley (29 January 1870 – 14 November 1955) was an Anglo-Irish soldier, Irish nationalist, public servant, cricketer, and author...
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George Monck Berkeley (8 February 1763 – 26 January 1793) was an English playwright and author, now remembered as a biographer of Jonathan Swift. He is...
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The Berkeley family is an ancient English noble family. It is one of only five families in Britain that can trace its patrilineal descent back to an Anglo-Saxon...
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Sir George Berkeley KCMG (1819–1905) was a British colonial governor, in the Leeward Islands and the West Africa Settlements. Born on Barbados on 2 November...
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of Yale's 14 residential colleges, it was named in honor of Bishop George Berkeley (1685–1753), dean of Derry and later bishop of Cloyne, in recognition...
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George Berkeley (1693? – 29 October 1746) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 26 years from 1720 to 1746. Berkeley was the fourth...
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George Berkeley Ross (January 24, 1918 – September 1, 2006) was an early pioneer of information technology in the American petroleum industry who spearheaded...
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Sir Berkeley Digby George Sheffield, 6th Baronet, DL (19 January 1876 – 26 November 1946) was a British Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party...
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17th century, John Locke in England, and in the 18th century, both George Berkeley in Ireland and David Hume in Scotland, all became leading exponents...
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Alexander Harper Berkeley (born 1955) is an American actor. Since beginning his career in the early 1980s, he has appeared in over 200 film and television...
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Vice-Admiral of Gloucestershire. He was the grandfather of George Berkeley, 8th Baron Berkeley. Henry Berkeley, sometimes called 'Henry the Harmlesse or Posthumous...
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Admiral Sir George Cranfield Berkeley, third son of Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley. His mother was Emilia Charlotte, daughter of Lord George Lennox...
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to George Berkeley, there are no extant writings in which he discussed this question. The closest are the following two passages from Berkeley's A Treatise...
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celebrating the 300th anniversary of George Berkeley's birth, Pappas propounded a new approach to the relationship between Berkeley's anti-abstractionism and "esse...
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areas. Notable colonial visitors to the area included George Washington and James Rumsey. Berkeley Springs remained a popular resort area during the United...
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is a federally funded research and development center in the hills of Berkeley, California, United States...
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Elizabeth Berkeley (c1713-1799), wife of Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort George Berkeley (1685–1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, Irish philosopher...
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The Honourable George Charles Grantley FitzHardinge Berkeley (10 February 1800 – 20 February 1881), known as Grantley Berkeley, was a British politician...
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Master argument (category George Berkeley)
related to the problem of future contingents. The master argument is George Berkeley's argument that mind-independent objects do not exist because it is...
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