Background
Luce, Arthur Aston was born on August 21, 1882 in Gloucestershire.
Historian of philosophy Berkcleyan philosopher
Luce, Arthur Aston was born on August 21, 1882 in Gloucestershire.
Trinity College, Dublin.
1912-1951, Fellow, 1942, Senior Fellow, 1946-1951, Vice-Provost, 1934-1949, Professor of Moral Philosophy, 1953-1977, Berkeley Professor of Metaphysics, Trinity College, Dublin.
As well as being a philosopher and a scholar. Luce was an Anglican clergyman who became a Canon (1936) and later Precentor (1953) of St Patrick s Cathedral in Dublin. Rejecting the idealist tradition from Kant to Bradley, he wrote on philosophers with whose views he had an affinity. In h|S book on Bergson, for instance, he wrote: 'The Bergsonian theory.. supports idealism in making mind the predominant partner in our psychophysical being. It is realist too. For according to >* real persons really perceive a real world’. These were virtues also, as he saw it. ltl Berkeley’s philosophy, a modernized version which he defended in his Sense without Ma,,er 1954. Although a contributor to contemporaO philosophical debates. Luce’s main influence has been as a scholar. Co-editor of the standar edition of Berkeley and author of the standar biography. Luce is noted for his contributions understanding the early development of E*er"_ ley’s philosophy. He drew attention to t importance of the Philosophical Commentaries for understanding Berkeley’s thought. This ne research led him to propose, contrary to preva ing assumptions, that Berkeley was not cxclusi' z to be seen as the successor of Descartes and Loc but as much indebted to Malebranche—a v* now generally accepted.