Könyv Solipsism - The Ultimate Empirical Theory of Human Existence Richard A. Watson

Solipsism - The Ultimate Empirical Theory of Human Existence

Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Elérhetőség: Utánnyomás
Megjelenés ismeretlen
10 189 Ft
Solipsism is the ultimate empirical theory of human existence. It is the metaphysical position that...

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Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2016
oldal
168
EAN
9781587315893
ISBN
1587315890
Enbook ID
11116670
Súly
362
Méretek
159 x 235 x 25

Teljes leírás

Solipsism is the ultimate empirical theory of human existence. It is the metaphysical position that there is only one self-conscious person in the universe, i.e., the present selfconscious being reading these paragraphs. A weaker version is the position that one can know for certain that there is only one conscious person in the universe, oneself. The present study is the only book-length examination of solipsism. It treats the origin of solipsism in the works of St. Augustine and René Descartes as well as all serious attempts to refute the thesis of solipsism. Such attempts were made primarily by British empiricists, specifically by George Santayana. Santayana concludes that solipsism cannot be refuted. Watson also concludes that solipsism cannot be refuted. He examines attempts by Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, British Idealists, Logical Positivists, Sense Datum Philosophers, and in particular Nelson Goodman and Gilbert Ryle (they are just pathetic). The spector haunting Modern Philosophy is not the Ghost in the Machine; it is solipsism. Watson argues that the foundations of Western Philosophy are solipsistic, and that all the major figures recognize this and know that solipsism cannot be refuted, but nevertheless continue by ignoring it, by pretending that it cannot be taken seriously, by offering inadequate solutions, and by treating solipsism as a joke. Watson’s book is the only study of solipsism by a professional philosopher, other than Santayana, in which solipsism is taken seriously as a threat to Modern Philosophy

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