The Importance of Subjectivity Selected Essays in Metaphysics and Ethics

by Sprigge, Timothy L. S.; McHenry, Leemon

• ISBN13: 9780199591541
• ISBN10: 0199591547
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 Sch

Author Biography

Timothy L. S. Sprigge (1932-2007) was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge working under R. T. H. Redpath and, later, A. J. Ayer. Professor Sprigge held positions teaching philosophy at University College London, Sussex University and, as a visiting professor, at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and President of the Aristotelian Society.

Leemon B. McHenry is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Northridge. In 2007, he co-edited with Pierfrancesco Basile a Festschrift honouring T. L. S. Sprigge, Consciousness, Reality, and Value: Essays in Honour of T. L. S. Sprigge (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2007). McHenry has taught philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Old Dominion University, Davidson College, Central Michigan University, and held research positions at the Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. He became literary executor to T. L. S. Sprigge in 2007.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Consciousness and the Metaphysics of Experience
Orientations (1996)	p. 3
What I Believe (2000)	p. 7
The Privacy of Experience (1969)	p. 15
Final Causes (1971)	p. 23
The Importance of Subjectivity: An Inaugural Lecture (1982)	p. 39
Is Consciousness Mysterious? (1999)	p. 57
Consciousness (1994)	p. 73
The Distinctiveness of American Philosophy (1980)	p. 89
The World of Description and the World of Acquaintance (2001)	p. 103
The Metaphysics of Time and the Absolute
The Unreality of Time (1992)	p. 123
Ideal Immortality (1972)	p. 137
Russell and Bradley on Relations (1979)	p. 159
The Self and its World in Bradley and Husserl (1984)	p. 179
Absolute Idealism (1996)	p. 193
Pantheism (1997)	p. 213
Ethics, Animal Rights, and the Environment
The Greatest Happiness Principle (1991)	p. 237
Is the Esse of Intrinsic Value Percipi? Pleasure, Pain and Value (2000)	p. 251
Metaphysics, Physicalism, and Animal Rights (1979)	p. 271
Vivisection, Morals, Medicine: Commentary from an Antivivisectionist Philosopher (1983)	p. 307
Non-human Rights: An Idealist Perspective (1984)	p. 313
Are There Intrinsic Values in Nature? (1987)	p. 333
An Idealist's Prayer for the World (2003)	p. 343
Credits	p. 344
Selected Bibliography	p. 346
Index	p. 351
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