<p>Presents a unified sequence of essays each of which examines metaphysical solutions to their best advantage.</p>

Theories of Existence

Politics & Social Sciences

Sprigge, Timothy L. S.

Philosophy

Penguin??Books

Timothy Sprigge was one of the leading exponents of philosophical idealism in the last fifty years. His scholarly work in the history of modern philosophy focused on Baruch Spinoza, William James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, F. H. Bradley, Arthur Schopenhauer, Edmund Husserl, and Alfred North Whitehead: this eventually led to the construction of his own original system of metaphysics he called 'panpsychistic absolute idealism'. Idealism, long unfashionable, has been coming back into favour, and Sprigge's work has found a new readership. This selection of his finest essays ranges widely over metaphysics, ethics, and the history of philosophy: all the themes that he discusses are drawn together in his unique philosophical system, based upon his original theory of the nature of consciousness.

The Importance of Subjectivity: Selected Essays in Metaphysics and Ethics

Oxford University Press

Facts, words, and beliefs, (International library of philosophy and scientific method)

Humanities Press

Santayana-Arg Philosophers (Arguments of the Philosophers)

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Santayana-Arg Philosophers: The Arguments of the Philosophers

Reference

Routledge

Arg Philosophers Set F X4 (Arguments of the Philosophers)

HOOKWAY

Tiles, J.E.

BIRD

Facts, words and beliefs, (International library of philosophy and scientific method)

Humanities P

Can moral judgements be true or false? Can rational methods be applied to ethics? In this landmark study, Sprigge gives an account of how philosophers have tackled these questions and puts forward his own theory on the matter.

The Rational Foundations of Ethics (The Problems of Philosophy : Their Past and Present)

Routledge& Kegan Paul

James and Bradley: American Truth and British Reality

<p>At the dawn of the twentieth century, William James was acknowledged as the leading American philosopher, and Francis Herbert Bradley as the leading British philosopher. Today James and Bradley are recognized as among the world's most significant thinkers of the past 100 years.</p>

Open Court Pub. Co

Despite their enduring importance, the theoretical systems of James and Bradley are often badly misunderstood. Professor Sprigge freshly expounds and clarifies their arguments, demonstrating that it is wrong to think of James's pragmatism and Bradley's monistic idealism as opposite extremes. Their positions in fact display an intriguing mixture of affinities and contrasts. Professor Sprigge begins with a critical account of the theory behind James's notorious claim that the true is nothing more than the expedient. He defends James against many unsound criticisms, but concludes that pragmatism's account of truth is incomplete. James's evolving metaphysical enquiries, from The Principles of Psychology through his later radical empiricist phase, his opposition to absolute idealism, and his religious motivation are all carefully elucidated. After outlining Bradley's metaphysical system, Sprigge scrutinizes Bradley's use of 'The Absolute', critically evaluates Russell's criticisms of Bradley, compares Bradley's phenomenology with Husserl's, and considers Bradley's view of the displacement of Christian morality by Darwinism.           

Open Court

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