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1 online resource (253 p.) |
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Cover -- Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1: Idealism and our place in the world -- 1.1 The Big Question -- 1.2 Idealism: the main idea -- 1.3 Idealism: some constraints -- 1.4 Idealism: the main options -- 2: Forms of idealism we should reject -- 2.1 Phenomenalism -- 2.2 Conventionalism -- 2.3 The subjectivity thesis -- 2.4 Fragmentalism -- 2.5 Idealist theories of properties and truth -- Mind-dependent properties -- Mind-dependent truths and facts -- 3: Conceptual idealism: the basic idea -- 3.1 Idealism via harmony -- 3.2 Harmony via internalism -- Talk about facts and propositions -- Quantification over facts and propositions -- Internalism and structural ineffability -- Internalism and idealism -- 3.3 How the argument is possible -- 3.4 But is it really idealism? -- 3.5 Filling in the picture -- 4: The internalist conception of facts -- 4.1 Fact-terms -- 4.2 Quantification -- 4.3 Context-sensitive quantifier inferences -- 4.4 Quantification and modality -- 4.5 The internalist position -- 5: Harmony and ineffability -- 5.1 From structural harmony to complete harmony? -- 5.2 The concept of the ineffable -- 5.3 Objects as a source of ineffability -- 5.4 The argument for complete harmony -- 5.5 The consequences of complete harmony -- 5.6 Constraining logical space -- 6: Inescapable concepts -- 6.1 The language-metaphysics gap -- 6.2 The idea of inescapable concepts -- 6.3 The significance of inescapable concepts -- 6.4 The inescapability of the propositional -- 6.5 Conceptual idealism as a deep result -- 7: The immanent stance -- 7.1 Rational traps -- 7.2 Immanent rationality and the asymmetry thesis -- 7.3 The immanent and the transcendent stance -- 7.4 Eklund on ought -- 7.5 Immanent metaphysics -- 8: Conceptual idealism: the overall picture -- 8.1 The Big Question revisited |
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8.2 How the constraints are met -- 8.3 The metaphysics of conceptual idealism -- 8.4 The meta-metaphysics of conceptual idealism -- 8.5 Onward -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
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 |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Idealism.
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Thought and thinking.
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Reality.
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idealism (philosophical movement)
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thinking.
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Idealism
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Reality
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Thought and thinking
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0192556754 |
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9780192556752 |
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