#   Colloquium Lecture: Bart Streumer (University of Groningen), "How Berkeley Can Go Quasi and Lose His Mind-Dependence" 

 



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 **September 19, 2025** 

 03:00PM - 05:00PM EDT 

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 **Emerson Hall 210**  



 

 



 

**Abstract:** Berkeley defends idealism partly by taking ordinary objects such as tables and stones to consist of ideas. Materialists reject this account of ordinary objects. I argue that Berkeley can undermine this rejection by making quasi-realist moves of the kind that many expressivists about normativity make. This ultimately results in a version of idealism that we cannot believe, since trying to believe it will make us believe materialism. But I argue that this version of idealism may nevertheless be true.



 

 



 

 

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