3rd Edition

The Revolt Against Dualism An Inquiry Concerning the Existence of Ideas

By Arthur O. Lovejoy Copyright 1996
452 Pages
by Routledge

452 Pages
by Routledge

424 Pages
by Routledge

The Revolt Against Dualism, first published in 1930, belongs to a tradition in philosophical theorizing that Arthur O. Lovejoy called "descriptive epistemology." Lovejoy's principal aim in this book is to clarify the distinction between the quite separate phenomena of the knower and the known, something regularly obvious to common sense, if not always to intellectual understanding. This work is... Read more
I: Cartesian Dualism and Natural Dualism; II: The First Phase of the Revolt and Its Outcome; III: The Second Phase: Objective Relativism; IV: The Outcome of the Second Phase; V: Mr. Whitehead and the Denial of Simple Location; VI: Mr. Bertrand Russell and the Unification of Mind and Matter: I; VII: Mr. Bertrand Russell and the Unification of Mind and Matter: II; VIII: Dualism and the Physical World; IX: The Nature of Knowing as a Natural Event

Biography

Arthur Lovejoy