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.

No one disputes that George Berkeley was among Ireland’s greatest thinkers, but he was also an unapologetic slaver. Now, Trinity College Dublin is taking his name off one of its buildings.

Trinity College in Dublin is looking to give its Berkeley Library a new name after confronting the "racist" past of slave-owning philosopher and alum George Berkeley – the person behind the moniker.

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.

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 ...

The Berkeley Library was named for George Berkeley, an 18th century philosopher who was an Anglican bishop from Ireland and, I’ve only recently learned, ...

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 ...

Several years later George Berkeley produced the most extraordinary work ever written by a modern philosopher, Siris, an investigation of the medical and divine properties of tar-water.

Ireland's oldest university, Trinity College Dublin, has announced it will remove the name of philosopher George Berkeley from one of its main libraries over his ownership of slaves and efforts to ...

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 ...

But now, historians at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, have renewed scrutiny of records indicating that the city’s namesake – Bishop George Berkeley, an 18th-century Irish philosopher and ...