The Routledge Handbook of Idealism and Immaterialism

<p>The influence of materialist ontology largely dominates philosophical and scientific discussions. However, there is a resurgent interest in alternative ontologies from panpsychism (the view that at the base of reality exists potential minds, minds, or mind-lets) to idealism and dualism (the view that all of reality is material and mental).</p><p>The Routledge Handbook of Idealism and Immaterialism is an outstanding reference source and the first major collection of its kind. Historically grounded and constructively motivated, it covers the key topics in philosophy, science, and theology, providing students and scholars with a comprehensive introduction to idealism and immaterialism. Also addressed are post-materialism developments, with explicit attention to variations of idealism and immaterialism (the view that reality depends on a mind or a set of minds).</p><p>Comprising 44 chapters written by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, the <em>Handbook</em> is organised into five clear parts:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Idealism and the history of philosophy</li> <li>Important figures in idealism</li> <li>Systematic assessment of idealism</li> <li>Idealism and science</li> <li>Idealism, physicalism, panpsychism, and substance dualism</li> </ul><p>Essential reading for students and researchers in metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of mind, <i>The Routledge Handbook of Idealism and Immaterialism</i> will also be of interest to those in related discplines where idealist and immaterialist ontology impinge on history, science, and theology.</p> <p>Introduction <i>Joshua Farris and Benedikt Paul Göcke </i><b>Part 1: Idealism and the History of Philosophy </b>1. Eastern Philosophy and Idealism <i>Gavin Flood </i>2. Plato and the Beginnings of Christian Idealism. Metaphysics of Divine and Human Agency in Clement and Origin of Alexandria <i>Christian Hengstermann </i>3. The Metaphysical Idealism of Eastern Church Fathers <i>Nathan A. Jacobs </i>4. The Idealism of the Cambridge Platonists <i>Douglas Hedley </i>5. American Idealism <i>David Boersema </i>6. German Idealism <i>Samuel Hughes </i>7. Some Problems from British Idealism <i>Stephen Priest </i><b>Part 2: Important Figures in Idealism </b>8. Cartesian Immaterialism <i>David Leech </i>9. Panentheism in Anne Conway <i>Karen Felter Vaucanson </i>10. A Most Subtle Matter: The (Im)materialisms of Anne Conway and Margaret Cavendish <i>Julia Borcherding </i>11. Leibnizian Idealism <i>Craig Warmke </i>12. No Induction, no Bodies? On the Relation of Two of Hume’s Scepticisms <i>Marius Backmann </i>13. Confessionalism and Causation in Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) <i>S. Mark Hamilton and C. Layne Hancock </i>14. Berkeley’s Role in Theistic Idealism <i>Howard Robinson </i>15. Idealism in Kant and Berkeley <i>Keith Ward </i>16. The Metaphysical Existence of Things-in-Themselves in Kant’s Transcendental Idealism <i>Ruben Schneider </i>17. Dichotomous Monism: Fichte’s Case for the Idealism of Original Duty <i>Halla Kim </i>18. Schelling and Immaterialism <i>Jason M. Wirth </i>19. Essential Features of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause’s Idealistic Panentheism <i>Benedikt Paul Göcke </i>20. How G.W.F. Hegel’s Broadly Platonic Idealism Explains Knowledge, Value, and Freedom <i>Robert M. Wallace </i>21. Josiah Royce’s Ethical Insight and the Inevitability of Moral Failure <i>Dwayne A. Tunstall </i>22. Idealism, Husserl, and Monotheism <i>Uwe Meixner </i>23. Whitehead’s Idealism on a Realistic Basis <i>Stascha Rohmer </i>24. Heidegger and Idealism <i>Lee Braver </i>25. Walter Benjamin: Salvation Through <i>Eingedenken</i>: On Monadic Now-Time and the Potential of the Air <i>Ana María Rabe </i>26. Pannenberg the Idealist? <i>Theodore Whapham </i><b>Part 3: Systematic Assessment of Idealism </b>27. Cartesianizing Idealism <i>Joshua Farris </i>28. Idealism and Judaism: The Metaphysical Covenant <i>Avital Hazony Levi </i>29. Idealism and the Qur’an: God and the Others <i>Mahdi Esfahani </i>30. Philosophical Idealism and the Reformed Theological Tradition: A Preliminary Exploration <i>William B. Evans </i>31. Idealism and Christian Doctrine <i>Thomas Schärtl </i>32. Idealism and Indian Philosophy <i>Shyam Ranganathan </i>33. Cosmological Idealism <i>Markus Gabriel </i>34. Why Critical Theism Necessarily Copes with Idealism: A Plea for Panentheism <i>Klaus Müller </i>35. Law in the Living Cosmos: The ‘Ought’ at the Core of the ‘Is’ <i>Freya Mathews </i>36. Idealism and Common Sense <i>Chad McIntosh </i><b>Part 4: Idealism and Science </b>37. Mind before Matter: The Unexpected Implications of Quantum Cosmology <i>Stephen C. Meyer </i>38. Idealism and Science: The Quantum-Theoretic and Neuroscientific Foundations of Reality <i>Bruce L. Gordon </i>39. Idealism and Science <i>Stathis Psillos </i><b>Part 5: Idealism, Physicalism, Panpsychism, and Substance Dualism </b>40. Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem <i>David Chalmers </i>41. Does Idealism solve the Problem of Consciousness? <i>Ralph S. Weir </i>42. Substance Dualism and the Idealism/Physicalism Debate <i>J.P. Moreland </i>43. Why Idealism makes for a better default position than Physicalism <i>Charles Taliaferro </i>44. Incorporeality <i>Lenn E. Goodman. Index</i></p>