Sep 2026· Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy· Vol 13· 0 citations
Abstract
In recent years forms of idealism influenced by Berkeley, Leibniz, and Mill have been defended, and metaphysicians and philosophers of mind have begun to appreciate some distinctive advantages that idealism has over materialist realism. One historical idealist has been conspicuously absent in this idealist revival: Husserl. Starting from Aron Gurwitsch’s interpretation of Husserl in The Field of Consciousness, I develop and defend a new version of idealism using contemporary resources. According to neo-Husserlian idealism, material objects are mereological bundles of what Mark Johnston calls sensible profiles. I argue that neo-Husserlian idealism has all the advantages that two recent idealists—Helen Yetter-Chappell and Michael Pelczar—claim for their views, as well as some unique advantages of its own.
The attempt by neo-Aristotelian naturalists such as Philippa Foot and Michael Thompson to ground the objective validity of ethical principles in human nature has met with significant criticism. In particular, critics often reject the concept of life-form central to this view as incompatible with modern scientific biolo...
J. S. Mill and Henry Sidgwick’s versions of classical utilitarianism have had an enormous effect on the development of modern English-speaking ethical philosophy. This study traces the impact of their thinking at Oxford and Cambridge during the second half of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth cen...
Abstract In the concluding chapter of Die Philosophie des Als Ob, Vaihinger offers an interpretation of Nietzsche’s epistemology in terms of his own fictionalism. Here, I suggest that Vaihinger’s interpretation is close to being correct, and that we still have much to learn from it. In particular, his reading promises...
In the minds of many critical theorists, Theodor W. Adorno epitomizes the failure of critical theory to provide any concrete guidance for political practice. His name is almost synonymous with the retreat of the progressive intellectual from the creeping totalitarianism of contemporary mass democracy. This book endeavo...
This article develops an alternative reading of Avicenna’s conception of providence. I first examine whether he affirms the traditional theistic attributes of omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence that ground the standard view of providence, arguing that he implicitly denies them and thus renders his argume...
Positivist thought found some echoes within the Armenian circles of Constantinople and Smyrna as of the second half of 19th century.
Positivism promoted positivism against metaphysics and religion. Old norms were to be replaced by new perceptions. Gosdantian Armenian book, About Method, is nothing but a promotion of po...
