Is there any similarities or differences between Locke’s and Berkeley’s metaphilosophies with regards to pseudo philosophies such as the mind body problem?
I don’t believe that either Locke or Berkeley thought that the mind-body problem was a pseudo-problem, but in Locke’s “Epistle to the Reader” which begins his “Essay on Human Understanding” Locke speaks of the job of philosophers as being that of “underlaborers” who clean out the rubbish so that the “Master Builders” like Isaac Newton can do their work. Locke thought that many of the ideas of the medieval philosopher were, what some would now call, “pseudo-ideas” which led to “pseudo-problems.” Berkeley writes about philosophers who “raise the dust and then complain they cannot see,” and the main thrust of his philosophy is that the idea of a material object is a pseudo-idea which leads to the pseudo-problem of whether there is an external world beyond our senses.