Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian philosophers : constructing the world / Omar W. Nasim.

Author/creator Nasim, Omar W., 1976-
Format Book
Publication InfoBasingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Descriptionxiii, 208 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesHistory of analytic philosophy
History of analytic philosophy. ^A1107735
Contents Stout's proto-new-realism -- Situating G.F. Stout -- Stout's doctrine of primary and secondary qualities -- Stout and the Brentano School -- Representative function of presentations -- Sensible space and real space -- Cook Wilson's geometrical counter-example -- Stout's central question -- Ideal constructions -- Ideal constructions in psychology and epistemology -- British new realism : the language of madness -- Stout's criticisms of Alexander -- Alexander's response -- The nature of sensations, images, and other presentations -- What is the metaphysical problem? -- "How can the interpretation which is supplied by the mind be a constituent of the [physical] object?" -- Some general remarks -- British new realism : the language of common-sense -- T.P. Nunn and the new realism -- Nunn and things -- Nunn's postulate -- Russell and Stout on sensible objects -- Russell, sense-data and sensibilia -- The methods of construction -- Russell's constructions and Nunn's postulate -- Constructions, psychology, and the essence of philosophy -- The method of logical construction -- A mathematical development -- The principle of abstraction.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 172-204) and index.
LCCN 2008029964
ISBN9780230205796 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0230205798 (hardback : alk. paper)

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