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Zusatztext with an oeuvre consisting of several large monographs and a variety of widely scattered articles, up to this point in time there has been no one source to which readers might go in order to form a broad picture of his contribution to the discipline. Bringing together a selection of his best papers and drawing on all of the main areas in which he was active, this volume makes good that gap, and stands both as a valuable summary of and fitting tribute to his work. Informationen zum Autor Timothy L. S. Sprigge (1932-2007) was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge working under R. T. H. Redpath and, later, A. J. Ayer. Professor Sprigge held positions teaching philosophy at University College London, Sussex University and, as a visiting professor, at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and President of the Aristotelian Society.Leemon B. McHenry is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Northridge. In 2007, he co-edited with Pierfrancesco Basile a Festschrift honouring T. L. S. Sprigge, Consciousness, Reality, and Value: Essays in Honour of T. L. S. Sprigge (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2007). McHenry has taught philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Old Dominion University, Davidson College, Central Michigan University, and held research positions at the Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. He became literary executor to T. L. S. Sprigge in 2007. Klappentext Timothy Sprigge was one of the leading exponents of philosophical idealism in the last fifty years. The idealist worldview, long unfashionable, has been coming back into favour, and Sprigge's work has found a new readership. These selected essays focus on the view of consciousness on which his unique system of metaphysics and ethics is based. Zusammenfassung Timothy Sprigge was one of the leading exponents of philosophical idealism in the last fifty years. The idealist worldview, long unfashionable, has been coming back into favour, and Sprigge's work has found a new readership. These selected essays focus on the view of consciousness on which his unique system of metaphysics and ethics is based. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Consciousness and the Metaphysics of Experience 1: Orientations 2: What I Believe 3: The Privacy of Experience 4: Final Causes 5: The Importance of Subjectivity: An Inaugural Lecture 6: Is Consciousness Mysterious? 7: Consciousness 8: The Distinctiveness of American Philosophy 9: The World of Description and the World of Acquaintance Part II: The Metaphysics of Time and the Absolute 10: The Unreality of Time 11: Ideal Immortality 12: Bradley and Russell on Relations 13: The Self and Its World in Bradley and Husserl 14: Absolute Idealism 15: Pantheism Part III: Ethics, Animal RIghts, and the Environment 16: The Greatest Happiness Principle 17: Is the Esse of Intrinsic Value Percipi? Pleasure, Pain and Value 18: Metaphysics, Physicalism and Animal Rights 19: Vivisection, Morals and Medicine: Commentary From an Anti-Vivisectionist Philosopher 20: Non-Human Rights: An Idealist Perspective 21: Are There Intrinsic Values in Nature 22: An Idealist's Prayer for the World Acknowledgements Selected Bibliography of T. L. S. Sprigge Index ...
