The Case for Idealism

ISBN-13: 9780367720261 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 318 str.

John Foster

Opis

Originally published in 1982, the aim of this book is a controversial one – to refute, by the most rigorous philosophical methods, physical realism and to develop and defend in its place a version of phenomenalism.

Spis treści

Preface.  Part 1: An Outline of the Issues  1. The Options  2. Berkeley’s System  3. The Nature of Anti-Realism  Part 2: The Topic-Neutrality Thesis  4. The Inscrutability of Matter  5. Matter in Space  6. The Confinement of Qualia  7. Mentalistic Realism  Part 3: The Refutation of Realism  8. Nomological Deviance  9. A Defence of the Nomological Thesis  10. Spatial Anti-Realism  11. Full Anti-Realism  Part 4: The Case for Phenomenalism  12. The Rejection of the Isomorphism-Requirement  13. The Principles of Creation  14. The Challenge of Nihilism  15. The Two Frameworks  Part 5: The Nature of Time  16. The Construction of Inter-Subjective Time  17. The Underlying Reality.  Notes.  Index.

O autorze

John Foster