Bradley’s Account of the Self as Appearance: Between Kant’s Transcendental Idealism and Hegel’s Speculative Idealism

Internal Realism: Transcendental Idealism?

The Refutation of Idealism

Modern Idealism, if it asserts any general conclusion about the universe at all, asserts that it is spiritual. There are two points about this assertion to which I wish to call attention. These points are that, whatever be its exact meaning, it is certainly meant to assert (1) that the universe is very different indeed from what it seems, and (2) that it has quite a large number of properties w...

Idealism and Pragmatism

1. The Problem I begin with a gloomy observation on monastic education by Phra Prayud Payutto (1939) of Thailan whom Tambiah calls "a brilliant scholar-monk" [1]. Payutto said in 1984: "The present state of m education is similar to a sky which has some spots of sunshine, but is in fact full of cloud. The sky is n clear. When monks themselves see the dull and overcast sky they may feel disheart...

Causal Refutations of Idealism

In the ‘Refutation of Idealism’ chapter of the first ‘Critique’, Kant argues that the conditions required for having certain kinds of mental episodes are sufficient to guarantee that there are ‘objects in space’ outside us. A perennially influential way of reading this compressed argument is as a kind of causal inference: in order for us to make justified judgements about the order of our inner...

The Poverty of Historical Idealism

leading to more guilty navel-gazing this should encourage Scots (and others) to absorb the lessons of the past and get on with forging the multicultural present, itself one positive outcome of that compromised history. It’s ironic that just when the ramparts around Blunkett’s ‘fortress Britain’ rise higher by the month, Jack MacConnell’s ‘Fresh Talent’ programme solicits foreign immigrants to s...