Back in the 1980s I was given the opportunity to teach for a year in the Rhode Island State prison. I was teaching full-time at nearbye Barrington College at the time and took this extra opportunity to expand my horizons, both academic and personal. The first semester I taught a World Religions course to about…

Berkeley, born in Ireland in 1685, is usually classified as an “Empiricist”, along with two other Brits John Locke and David Hume. But as you will see, he was a character all his own. He started out following Locke claiming that all we have on which to base our knowledge claims are the “impressions” made…