In this magisterial study, the product of 25 years of scholarly work, Daniel presents a profound, at times radical, reinterpretation of Berkeley's central metaphysical and epistemological doctrines ... This fresh interpretative framework facilitates an appreciation of the consistency of Berkeley's doctrines, early and late ... and provides a renewed understanding of Berkeley's relations to his philosophical contemporaries.
Stephen H. Daniel is Presidential Professor of Teaching Excellence and Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He has written five books, edited three others (two of which are on Berkeley), and published more than sixty articles on 17th- and 18th-century philosophy and on current continental theory. He has received numerous teaching awards, given presentations throughout North America, Europe, and Australia, and from 2006 to 2016 was president of the
International Berkeley Society. He is also an avid kayaker and author of Texas Whitewater.