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Citation

Millar A (2017) 'Berkeley's Puzzle'. Analysis, 77 (1), pp. 232-242. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anw070

Abstract
First paragraph: As represented by Campbell, Berkeley’s Puzzle is generated by two assumptions ‘It is because of sensory experience that we have knowledge of our surroundings’ (1) ? All that sensory experience can contribute to our knowledge is knowledge of sensory experience itself (1)? The problem is deep since its roots are in a conception of how our concepts are, as Campbell puts it, grounded. On Berkeley s assumptions, corresponding to (1) and (2) we have, respectively, the following.? ? 3. ‘Our understanding of concepts of the medium-sized world is grounded in our sensory experience’ (26) ? 4. ‘Sensory experience can provide only concepts of sensory experience itself’ (26) ? Given these assumptions there is an issue as to how we can so much as think about, never mind know about, a mind-independent world (3–4, 26).

Journal
Analysis: Volume 77, Issue 1