Berkeley's Tree

About the Book

"I was thinking of a tree in a solitary place, where no one was present to see it." These words of the philosopher, George Berkeley, have become the symbol of ultimate metaphysical questions: what constitutes existence? Are ideas and thoughts real? Is mind separate from brain? Traced here through more than two thousand years, this is a study of ancient and modern metaphysics. It was the basis of two "slow-reading" lists sponsored by Lance Fletcher and hosted by the author on the Internet at , for Plato's Parmenides and Aristotle's Metaphysics from 1995 to 2002. Berkeley's Tree is aimed at readers of all sorts, from the amateur or merely curious to the professional or experienced scholar. It aims to bring fresh ideas to the study of philosophy and psychology.

About the Author

Edward Little, A.B. Dartmouth College, 1941, Ph.D. University of Montreal, Institute of Medieval Studies, 1969, has been for the past twenty five years an independent scholar specializing in ancient Greekmeta physics. His early training was with Philip Wheelwright of Dartmouth College and the University of California. He is also authorof Two Essays on the Origins of Metaphysics, published by iUniverse.