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1 online resource |
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Cover -- The Unknowable: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Metaphysics -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART I: The Unconditioned -- 1: Sir William Hamilton -- 1.1 The Way of 'Learned Ignorance' -- 1.2 The Relativity of Knowledge -- 1.3 The Law of the Conditioned -- 1.4 Common Sense and the Existence of the Unconditioned -- 1.5 Hamilton and Kant -- 1.6 Substance and Adjective -- 1.7 Space and Time -- 1.8 Causality -- 1.9 The Question of Free Will -- 1.10 God -- 1.11 Concluding Remarks -- 2: Henry Longueville Mansel -- 2.1 The Philosophy of Kant |
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2.2 Negative Reason: The Impossibility of Thinking of God -- 2.3 Positive Reason: Belief in the Existence of God -- 2.4 Theology, Revelation, and Faith -- 2.5 Mill's Objections to Mansel -- 2.6 Space and Time -- 2.7 Substance, Mind, and Matter -- 2.8 Causality and Freedom -- 2.9 Concluding Remarks -- 3: Herbert Spencer -- 3.1 Spencer's Epistemology -- 3.2 The Religion of the Unknowable -- 3.3 Science and the Unknowable -- 3.4 Space, Time, and Matter -- 3.5 Force and Causation -- 3.6 Spencer's Psychology -- 3.7 Concluding Remarks -- 4: Thomas Henry Huxley -- 4.1 Agnosticism and Metaphysics |
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4.2 Agnosticism and Epistemology -- 4.3 Huxley on God -- 4.4 Huxley on Causation -- 4.5 Huxley on the External World -- 4.6 Huxley on the Self -- 4.7 Evolution and Ethics -- PART II: Empiricist Objections -- 5: John Stuart Mill -- 5.1 Mill's Empiricism and His Attitude towards the Unknowable -- 5.2 Mill on Time and Space -- 5.3 Mill on Matter (Phenomenalism) -- 5.4 Mill on the Self -- 5.5 Mill on Causation -- 5.6 Mill on Free Will -- 5.7 Mill on Laws -- 5.8 Mill on God and Religion -- 6: Alexander Bain and George Croom Robertson -- 6.1 Alexander Bain -- 6.2 Bain's Empiricism -- 6.3 Time and Space |
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6.4 Phenomenalism and the External World -- 6.5 Causation, Uniformity, and Force -- 6.6 The Self, the Mind-Body Relation, and Human Freedom -- 6.7 Things-in-Themselves -- 6.8 George Croom Robertson -- 6.9 Methodological Considerations -- 6.10 Metaphysical Considerations -- 7: Shadworth Hollway Hodgson and William Kingdon Clifford -- 7.1 The Metaphysical Society -- 7.2 Shadworth Hodgson -- 7.3 Hodgson's Methodology -- 7.4 Causality -- 7.5 Demonstration of the Material Universe -- 7.6 Things-in-Themselve -- 7.7 The Unseen Universe -- 7.8 William Kingdon Clifford -- 7.9 Phenomenalism |
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7.10 Causality -- 7.11 The Unknowable and Religion -- 7.12 Clifford's Metaphysics -- 8: G.H. Lewes and Karl Pearson -- 8.1 G.H. Lewes -- 8.2 Three Examples of Empirical Metaphysics -- 8.3 Metempirics and the Unknowable -- 8.4 Karl Pearson -- 8.5 Pearson and the Centrality of Sense-Impressions -- 8.6 Some Examples of Pearson's Reductionism -- 8.7 Scientism -- 8.8 Agnosticism and Metaphysics -- PART III: Idealist Objections -- 9: James Frederick Ferrier -- 9.1 Transitional Comments -- 9.2 Ferrier -- 9.3 Ferrier's Conception of Ignorance -- 9.4 Ferrier's Conception of the Contradictory |
| Summary |
W.J. Mander presents a history of metaphysics in nineteenth-century Britain. He traces the story of the development and interplay of three great schools of thought, the agnostics, the empiricists, and the idealists, and their different responses to the idea of an ultimate but unknowable way that things really are in themselves |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 26, 2020) |
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Metaphysics -- History -- 19th century
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Knowledge, Theory of -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Philosophers -- Great Britain
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Philosophy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Metaphysics
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Philosophers
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Philosophy
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192537379 |
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0192537377 |
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9780191846878 |
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0191846872 |
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9780192537362 |
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0192537369 |
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