Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality
Seiten
2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-882363-6 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-882363-6 (ISBN)
Do human beings have a special place in reality? Thomas Hofweber argues that we are special because there is an intimate connection between our human minds and reality itself. His form of idealism holds that our minds constrain, but do not construct, reality, which is the totality of facts, things taken to be completely independent of us.
Do human beings have a special and distinguished place in reality? In Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality Thomas Hofweber contends that they do. We are special since there is an intimate connection between our human minds and reality itself. This book defends a form of idealism which holds that our human minds constrain, but do not construct, reality as the totality of facts. Reality as the totality of facts is thus not independent of our minds, and our minds play a metaphysically special role in all of reality. But reality as the totality of things is taken to be completely independent of us.
Hofweber's proposed form of conceptual idealism is formulated via the notion of a harmony between our minds and reality. This harmony is defended through considerations in the philosophy of language. How can one possibly defend a metaphysical thesis like idealism from considerations about our own representation? A key step in the book's argument is to consider a special class of concepts--inescapable concepts--which we cannot rationally replace with different ones. This leads to a new approach for making progress in metaphysics--immanent metaphysics--which is broadly neo-Kantian in spirit.
Do human beings have a special and distinguished place in reality? In Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality Thomas Hofweber contends that they do. We are special since there is an intimate connection between our human minds and reality itself. This book defends a form of idealism which holds that our human minds constrain, but do not construct, reality as the totality of facts. Reality as the totality of facts is thus not independent of our minds, and our minds play a metaphysically special role in all of reality. But reality as the totality of things is taken to be completely independent of us.
Hofweber's proposed form of conceptual idealism is formulated via the notion of a harmony between our minds and reality. This harmony is defended through considerations in the philosophy of language. How can one possibly defend a metaphysical thesis like idealism from considerations about our own representation? A key step in the book's argument is to consider a special class of concepts--inescapable concepts--which we cannot rationally replace with different ones. This leads to a new approach for making progress in metaphysics--immanent metaphysics--which is broadly neo-Kantian in spirit.
Thomas Hofweber is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mathematics. He is the author of Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2016) besides numerous articles.
Preface
1: Idealism and our place in the world
2: Forms of idealism we should reject
3: Conceptual idealism: the basic idea
4: The internalist conception of facts
5: Harmony and ineffability
6: Inescapable concepts
7: The immanent stance
8: Conceptual idealism: the overall picture
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.05.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 542 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-882363-0 / 0198823630 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-882363-6 / 9780198823636 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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