Intuition and Ideality (SUNY series in Systematic Philosophy) - Softcover

Weissman, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887064280 ISBN 13: 9780887064289

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1987

Synopsis

This book shows how idealism is a consequence of the intuitionist method. Idealism develops from mental content inspected by mind, or as mind characterizing itself. Weissman declares that the idea of an independent world, of a nature whose character and existence are independent of mind, cannot be recovered until we repudiate the intuitionist method. This psycho-centric ontology has been pervasive in Western philosophy since Parmenides and Plato. Intuition and Ideality characterizes its varieties, dialectical cycles, and idealist consequences.

What is required is a method that is speculative and testable-a method that makes speculation responsible by testability. Weissman characterizes such a hypothetical method, and he describes some of the categorical features that are discovered in the world as this alternative method is used.

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About the Author

David Weissman is Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He is the author of Eternal Possibilities: A Neutral Ground for Meaning and Existence and Truth's Debt to Value, among other books.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887064280
• ISBN 13: 9780887064289
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 309