Journal article
Idealist implications of contemporary science
- Abstract:
- Recent developments in contemporary natural science (including the evolutionary study of perception, cognitive science, and interpretations of quantum physics) incorporate central idealist positions relating to the nature of representation, the role our minds play in structuring our experience of the world, and the properties of the world behind our representations. This paper first describes what these positions are, and how they are introduced in the relevant theories in terms of precisely formulated scientific analogues. I subsequently consider how this way of looking at philosophical idealism through selected parts of contemporary science can help us to pursue new ways of developing key idealist questions in a way that is integrated with a naturalistically supported endeavour to understand central features of reality.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1007/s10670-023-00738-8
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- Publisher:
- Springer
- Journal:
- Erkenntnis More from this journal
- Volume:
- 90
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 967–988
- Publication date:
- 2023-09-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-08-17
- DOI:
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1572-8420
- ISSN:
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0165-0106
- Language:
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English
- Pubs id:
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1504054
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pubs:1504054
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2023-08-06
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- Copyright holder:
- Jan Westerhof
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2023.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Springer at https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-023-00738-8
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