| Other author/creator | Marshall, Catherine, 1973- |
| Other author/creator | Lightman, Bernard V., 1950- |
| Other author/creator | England, Richard. |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the metaphysical society in context / Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman, Richard England -- The personalization of intellectual combat : James Fitzjames Stephen and the metaphysical society / Bruce Kinzer -- The editors of the metaphysical society, or disseminating the ideas of the metaphysicians / Catherine Marshall -- Liberalism and the metaphysical society / Andrew Vincent -- 'The cross-examination of the physiologist' : T.H. Huxley and the resurrection / Gowan Dawson -- Cause, nature, and the limits of language : Martineau and Maurice on the philosophical necessity of theism / Richard England -- Expertise in the miracles debate / Anne DeWitt -- Hodgson, Clifford, and the unseen universe / W.J. Mander -- Evolution, ethics, and the metaphysical society, 1869-1875 / Ian Hesketh -- Between intuition and empiricism : William Benjamin Carpenter on man, mind, and moral responsibility / Piers J. Hale -- Intuitionism, religious belief, and proof in the papers of the metaphysical society / William Sweet -- Catholics and the metaphysical basis of science / Bernard Lightman. |
| Abstract |
"The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to 'collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral phenomena' (first resolution of the society in April 1869). The Society was a private dining and debate club that gathered together a latter-day clerisy. Building on the tradition of the Cambridge Apostles, they elected talented members from across the Victorian intellectual spectrum: Bishops, one Cardinal, philosophers, men of science, literary figures, and politicians. The Society included in its 62 members prominent figures such as T. H. Huxley, William Gladstone, Walter Bagehot, Henry Edward Manning, John Ruskin, and Alfred Lord Tennyson."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019934008 |
| ISBN | 9780198846499 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0198846495 (hardcover) |
