Idealism

New Essays in Metaphysics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Idealism is a family of metaphysical views each of which gives priority to the mental. The best-known forms of idealism in Western philosophy are Berkeleyan idealism, which gives ontological priority to the mental (minds and ideas) over the physical (bodies), and Kantian idealism, which gives a kind of explanatory priority to the mental (the structure of the understanding) over the physical (the structure of the empirical world). Although idealism was once a dominant view in Western philosophy, it has suffered almost total neglect over the last several decades. This book rectifies this situation by bringing together seventeen essays by leading philosophers on the topic of metaphysical idealism. The various essays explain, attack, or defend a variety of idealistic theories, including not only Berkeleian and Kantian idealisms but also those developed in traditions less familiar to analytic philosophers, including Buddhism and Hassidic Judaism. Although a number of the articles draw on historical sources, all will be of interest to philosophers working in contemporary metaphysics. This volume aims to spark a revival of serious philosophical interest in metaphysical idealism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-12-14
Mått:164 x 242 x 23 mm
Vikt:624 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:314
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198746973

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Tyron Goldschmidt is a visiting assistant professor in philosophy at Wake Forest University. He has journal publications in metaphysics, philosophy of religion and the history of philosophy. He co-authored Berkeley's Principles: Expanded and Explained (Routledge, 2016) and edited The Puzzle of Existence: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? (Routledge, 2013).Kenneth Pearce is Ussher Assistant Professor in Berkeley Studies (Early Modern Philosophy) at Trinity College Dublin. He has journal publications in early modern philosophy, metaphysics and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Language and the Structure of Berkeley's World (OUP, 2017).

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The material presented here is wide ranging, highly engaging, and likely to be of interest to philosophers and students working on any of a number of ongoing debates in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of science. ... I found this volume enormously fruitful, and I have no doubt that the contributions it contains will inform much of the discussion of idealism in the years to come.

Innehållsförteckning

Tyron Goldschmidt and Kenneth Pearce: Introduction 1: Todd Buras and Trent Dougherty: Parrying Parity: A Reply to a Reidian Critique of Idealism 2: Robert Smithson: A New Epistemic Argument for Idealism 3: Aaron Segal and Tyron Goldschmidt: The Necessity of Idealism 4: Graham Oppy: Against Idealism 5: Helen Yetter Chappell: Idealism Without God 6: Nicholas Stang: Transcendental Idealism Without Tears 7: Arif Ahmed: Signaling Systems and the Transcendental Deduction 8: Thomas Hofweber: Conceptual Idealism Without Ontological Idealism: Why Idealism Is True After All 9: Kris McDaniel: The Idealism of Mary Whiton Calkins 10: Sam Lebens: Hassidic Idealism: Kurt Vonnegut and the Creator of the Universe 11: Bronwyn Finnigan: Buddhist Idealism 12: Kenneth Pearce: Mereological Idealism 13: Sara Bernstein: Causal Idealism 14: Daniel Greco: Explanation, Idealism, and Design 15: Jacob Ross: Idealism and Fine-Tuning 16: Marc Lange: Idealism and Incommensurability 17: Susan Schneider: Idealism, or Something Near Enough