@inbook {613239,
	title = {Berkeley on Ordinary Objects},
	booktitle = {The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {385-396},
	publisher = {Bloomsbury},
	organization = {Bloomsbury},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {Berkeley famously maintains that spirits and ideas exhaust the fundamental ontology of the world. How then do ordinary objects {\textendash} tables and chairs, cats and dogs {\textendash} fit into Berkeley{\textquoteright}s metaphysics? Section 1 of this essay presents the core of Berkeley{\textquoteright}s account of ordinary objects as well as a longstanding objection to that account, namely that he must deny the commonsense conviction that ordinary objects persist even when not perceived by us. Sections 2 through 4 consider three lines of response to the problem of the persistence of ordinary objects that have been attributed to Berkeley by his commentators. Finally, section 5 suggests that those three lines of response might perhaps best be seen as complementary {\textendash} rather than rival {\textendash} threads in Berkeley{\textquoteright}s considered understanding of things such as birds and bees, mountains and lakes.},
	author = {Jeffrey K. McDonough},
	editor = {Bertil Belfrage and Dick Brook}
}
