Marking the Centenary of Samuel Alexander's Space, Time and Deity

Buch | Softcover

XV, 245 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-65123-7 (ISBN)

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This book is an edited collection of essays in celebration of the centenary of Samuel Alexander's Space, Time and Deity, published in 1920. Samuel Alexander (1859-1938) was a leading figure of British philosophy in the early twentieth century. He was partly responsible for the 'new realism' movement along with G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell. However, his work has been overlooked in developments of twentieth century philosophy and yet his theories and style of theorising are in vogue. This book begins with three previously unpublished papers by Alexander that shed light on his metaphysical commitments about time, universals, God, knowledge of past truths, grounding, and inference in logic and science. There are also two important posthumous chapters by philosophers of the mid-twentieth century, who elaborate on his life and most significant contributions. The second half of the book contains new essays by current scholars, discussing Alexander on metaphysical realism,idealism, naturalism, space and time, process ontology, ontological categories, epistemology, perception, philosophy of history, emergentism, and empiricism.

A.R.J. Fisher is a Lecturer at the University of Washington, USA. He works on the metaphysics of properties, time and modality as well as history of twentieth century metaphysics.

Part One: Posthumous Papers.- 1. On Taking Time Seriously (1914); S. Alexander.- 2. The Reality of the Past (1915); S. Alexander.- 3. Ground and Cause (1922); S. Alexander. - 4. Samuel Alexander in Manchester; Dorothy Emmet.- 5. Samuel Alexander and the Analytical Introverts; Donald C. Williams. Part Two: New Essays.- 6. Samuel Alexander's Place in British Philosophy: Realism and Naturalism from 1880s Oxford Onwards; Emily Thomas.- 7. Samuel Alexander on Motion; Michael Rush. - 8. Samuel Alexander's Categories; Peter Simons. - 9 Samuel Alexander and the Psychological Origins of Realism; A.R.J. Fisher. - 10. Becoming Real: The Metaphysics of Samuel Alexander and R.G. Collingwood; James M. Connelly.- 11.The Rise and Fall of Australian Empiricism; Mark Weblin.- Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	History of Analytic Philosophy
Zusatzinfo	XV, 245 p. 12 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	348 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte	Analytic metaphysics • metaphysical realism • New Realism • Samuel Alexander • Space-time
ISBN-10	3-030-65123-1 / 3030651231
ISBN-13	978-3-030-65123-7 / 9783030651237
Zustand	Neuware