The Vindication of Absolute Idealism /

The Vindication of Absolute Idealism / / Timothy Sprigge.

When Timothy Sprigge's The Vindication of Absolute Idealism appeared in 1983 it ran very much against the grain of the dominant linguistic and analytic traditions of philosophy in Britain. The very title of this work was a challenge to those who believed that Absolute Idealism fell with the cri...

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Sprigge, Timothy,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©1984
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (291 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Preface
  • Preamble
  • I. Of Consciousness and Other Things
  • 1. What consciousness is
  • 2. The Continuity of Consciousness
  • 3. Judgement
  • 4. Desire and Will
  • 5. Past and Future
  • 6. The Method and the Goal of Metaphysics
  • 2. Various Conceptions of Physical Reality and their Common Upshot
  • Introduction
  • I. Naive Realism
  • 2. Subjective Idealism
  • 3. Naive Scientism
  • 4. Critical Scientism
  • 5. Phenomenalism
  • 6. Phenomenalist Instrumentalism
  • 7. The Physical Thing as Concrete Universal
  • 8. The Adverbial Theory of Perception
  • 3 The Vindication of Panpsychism
  • First argument for panpsychism: It is superior to any other answer ever offered to a certain question which is evidently meaningful
  • Second argument for panpsychism : It makes the mind-body relationship more intelligible
  • Third argument for panpsychism: It rightly takes as our clue to the nature of noumenal reality in general the one initial example we have of it
  • Fourth argument for panpsychism: There is no conceivable sort of concrete actuality but sentience
  • Some objections to the fourth argument considered
  • 4. The Sentience of the Whole and the Sentience of the Parts
  • Introduction
  • 5. Relations
  • 1. Properties and Individual Essences
  • 2. Ideal Relations
  • 3. Holistic Relations
  • 4· 'Prehending' and 'Objectification'
  • 5. The Question of External Relations
  • 6. Concluding Remark on the Status of Relations
  • 6. The Absolute
  • 1. Main Conclusion
  • 2. The Compounding of Consciousness
  • 3. Judgement again, Memory and Causal Influence
  • 4. Types of Monism
  • Notes
  • Index

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