Trinity College Dublin has decided to seek a new name for its central library, the Berkeley, after concluding that the alumnus it honors, the 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley, owned slaves ...

Yet in classes at the University of California at Berkeley, philosophy major James Bennett, who is Black and Filipino, sees almost no one who looks like him.

Alva Noë, chair of UC Berkeley’s philosophy department, delivered this year’s Presidential Lecture in the Arts and Humanities on the vital relationship between love and perception.

The Howison Philosophy Library is located on the third floor of Philosophy Hall. Its collection originated as the personal library of George Howison, the founding member of the Berkeley philosophy ...

Muscles fit together to form an exquisite mosaic within every human body. At least, that’s the impression readers may come away with after reading Berkeley author Bonnie Tsui’s “On Muscle ...

As a philosopher, Berkeley was big on perception. He was, after all, the guy credited with being the first to ask, “If a tree falls in the forest, and no one hears it, ...

UC Berkeley removes name from Moses Hall due to racism. Crews removed lettering from the campus philosophy building Tuesday. Graduate students and faculty said its namesake had racist views.

With George Berkeley’s slave-owner past uncovered, will the city or university consider a name change? The 18th-century Irish philosopher advocated owning Native Americans he characterized as ...

George Berkeley is Ireland's best-known philosopher. Born in 1685, he attended Kilkenny College before heading up to TCD at 15. He is best known for a view called immaterialism, which is the ...

From the Irish Times:. Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has decided to remove George Berkeley’s name from its main library because of the Irish philosopher’s association with slavery.

In classes at the University of California at Berkeley, philosophy major James Bennett, who is Black and Filipino, sees almost no one who looks like him.