A system of metaphysics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fullerton, George Stuart, 1859-1925
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Greenwood Press, 1968 [©1904]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The mind and the world in common thought and in science
  • The inadequacy of the psychological standpoint
  • How things are given in consciousness
  • The elements in consciousness
  • The self or knower
  • What we mean by the expernal world
  • Sensations and "things"
  • The distinction between appearance and reality
  • Significance of the distinction between appearance and reality
  • The Kantian doctrine of space
  • Difficulties connected with the Kantian doctrine of space
  • The Berkeleian doctrine pf space
  • Of time
  • The real world in space and time
  • The world as mechanism
  • The insufficiency of materialism
  • The atomic self
  • The automation theory: its genesis
  • The automaton theory: parallelism
  • What is parallelism?
  • The man and the candlestick
  • The metaphysics of the "telephone exchange"
  • The distinction between the world and the mind
  • The time and place of sensations and ideas
  • Of natural realism, hypothetical realism, idealism and materialism
  • The world as unperceived, and the "unknowable"
  • The existence of other minds
  • The distribution of minds
  • The unity of consciousness
  • Subconscious mind
  • Mental phenomena and the causal nexus
  • Mechanism and teleology
  • Fatalism, "free-will," and determinism
  • Of God
  • Of God (continued)
  • The physical world order.