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This new, completely revised and re-written edition of aesthetics and subjectivity brings up to date the original book's account of the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Fichte and Holderlin, the early Romantis, Schelling, Hegel, Sc…
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Michael Pelczar offers a new account of space, time, and conscious experience, which reconciles the scientific conception of time with the evidence of introspection. He defends a phenomenalist metaphysic which holds that consciousness exis…
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Idealism is the view that the universe is fundamentally mental. It is often motivated by epistemological issues and associated with views such as phenomenalism. I explore a different sort of motivation for idealism, through the mind-body p…
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Several alternatives vie today for recognition as the most plausible ontology, from physicalism to panpsychism. By and large, these ontologies entail that physical structures circumscribe consciousness by bearing phenomenal properties with…