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Berkeley on Materialism and Immaterialism

2022· book-chapter· en· W4213142894 on OpenAlexaff
Melissa Frankel

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2022
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical Philosophy and Science
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMaterialismPsychoanalysisPsychologyPhilosophyEpistemology

Abstract

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Abstract Berkeley argues that matter does not exist. His target is what he takes to be a philosophical (rather than common-sense) doctrine, on which there exist corporeal, non-mental substances that play the role either of supporting qualities or of causing sensory ideas. Berkeley’s materialist opponents are diverse, including not only Locke, but also Descartes and his followers. Because the proponents of matter formulate their commitment to that doctrine in differing ways, or offer differing reasons in support of it, Berkeley appeals to a wide range of differing tactics in his attempt to undermine materialism, arguing among other things that it is incoherent, that it is empty, or that it is explanatorily superfluous. This chapter attempts to give a Berkeleyan reconstruction of various materialist theses, as well as to give a sense of the structure of his arguments against those theses, in order to see why Berkeley ultimately thinks we should abandon philosophical materialism.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.987
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.043
GPT teacher head0.178
Teacher spread0.135 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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