Kantian Phenomenalism Without Berkeleyan Idealism

Graham Oddie Permanent Possibilities of Sensation

Idealism apparently comes in both an extravagant and a more modest form. The extravagant, Berkeleyan brand maintains that objects are nothing more than bunches of occurrent experiences. Recasting this thesis in terms of the totality of facts about objects, the extravagant idealist affirms that all facts are settled by the purely mental facts. If a fact of any sort at all obtains then that fact ...

The corporate social responsibility of the pharmaceutical industry: idealism without illusion and realism without resignation.

In recent years society has come to expect more from the "socially-responsible" company and the global HIV/AIDS pandemic in particular has resulted in some critics saying that the "Big Pharma" companies have not been living up to their social responsibilities. Corporate social responsibility can be understood as the socio-economic product of the organizational division of labor in complex moder...

Evolution and Kantian morality

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...

Idealism in Yogācāra Buddhism

In the last fifty years or so, since Yogācāra texts have been available to western academics, there has been a debate as to how Yogācāra Buddhism should be interpreted. This article seeks to establish that Yogācāra Buddhism is most properly interpreted as an idealist school of Buddhist thought. Specifically, it challenges the arguments that have been put forth in recent years that suggest a phe...