Intuition and Ideality

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SUNY Press, 1. 1. 1987 - 309 strán (strany)
This book shows how idealism is a consequence of the intuitionist method. Idealism develops from mental content inspected by mind, or as mind characterizing itself. Weissman declares that the idea of an independent world, of a nature whose character and existence are independent of mind, cannot be recovered until we repudiate the intuitionist method. This psycho-centric ontology has been pervasive in Western philosophy since Parmenides and Plato. Intuition and Ideality characterizes its varieties, dialectical cycles, and idealist consequences.

What is required is a method that is speculative and testable--a method that makes speculation responsible by testability. Weissman characterizes such a hypothetical method, and he describes some of the categorical features that are discovered in the world as this alternative method is used.

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Method Mind and Ontology
17
2 Descartes method
18
3 Functionalism
21
4 Psychologism
23
5 Descartes intuitionism
29
6 Plato and Descartes
32
7 Descartes notion of intuiting mind
34
8 A different way of determining minds features
35
6 Certainty
148
7 Summary
153
The Intuitionist Ontology and Psychology
155
2 The intuitionist psychology
169
3 The alternative again
193
Topical Metaphysics Cause and Effect
195
2 Two kinds of topical analysis
197
3 Cause and effect as an example for topical analysis
198

9 Is mind inspectable?
37
10 Descartes intuitionist ontology
39
11 Does knowledge reach beyond our inspecting minds?
41
12 Gods role in Descartes theory of knowledge
42
13 The opposition of theory and method
44
14 Methods ascendance over theory
49
The Dialectical Cycles of Intuitionist Method
53
2 Four organizing notions
54
3 Content and form
54
4 The dialectical refinements of content and form
60
5 The reciprocity of mind and experience
86
6 Providing for content and form mind and experience
93
7 The justifications for intuitionist method
95
8 Conclusions
104
Intuitionist Methods Defining Properties
107
2 Contingency and necessity
116
3 The given is inspected
131
4 Analysis and Synthesis
137
5 The temporality of things given
146
4 Humes theory of cause and effect
199
5 Unsatisfactory alternatives
202
7 Two kinds of theory about causation
203
8 A theory of cause alternative to Humes
205
9 Hume on stable systems and their causes
218
12 Whiteheads notion of cause
229
13 Whitehead and Hume
241
Systematic Metaphysics Minds Appropriation of Being
243
5 Three features for which to provide when making a world
246
6 Four additional questions
257
7 Elevating the cogito to Godhood
258
8 The more rigorous formulation of this result
274
9 Idealism is the consequence of intuitionist method
285
10 Why intuiting mind disappears
286
11 Intuiting mind as the paradigm for reality
287
Notes
291
Index
299
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David Weissman is Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York.

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