Samuel Alexander’s Place in British Philosophy: Realism and Naturalism from the 1880s Onwards
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This chapter places Alexander in his intellectual context, focusing on early 1880s work, and exploring how that flows into mature work. It considers Alexander’s views two major late nineteenth century debates about the mind. First, what is relationship of mind to nature? During this period, idealists were battling with realists over whether should be identified nature. I argue was always a realist, speculate association Oxford realism. Second, did our minds evolve biologically? Some theorists argued for naturalism, whilst others supernaturalism. naturalist. Despite realism he leans towards both idealism supernaturalism, sharply distinguishing from analytic philosophers. The final part explains while system won few converts, it widely admired remains grand edifice history speculative metaphysics.
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عنوان ژورنال: History of analytic philosophy
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2634-5994', '2634-6001']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65121-3_7