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Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian philosophers: constructing the world
2009, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
0230205798 9780230205796
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Stout's proto-new-realism
Situating G.F. Stout
Stout's doctrine of primary and secondary qualities
Stout and the Brentano School
Representative function of presentations
Sensible space and real space
Cook Wilson's geometrical counter-example
Stout's central question
Ideal constructions
Ideal constructions in psychology and epistemology
British new realism : the language of madness
Stout's criticisms of Alexander
Alexander's response
The nature of sensations, images, and other presentations
What is the metaphysical problem?
"How can the interpretation which is supplied by the mind be a constituent of the [physical] object?"
Some general remarks
British new realism : the language of common-sense
T.P. Nunn and the new realism
Nunn and things
Nunn's postulate
Russell and Stout on sensible objects
Russell, sense-data and sensibilia
The methods of construction
Russell's constructions and Nunn's postulate
Constructions, psychology, and the essence of philosophy
The methods of logical construction
A mathematical development
The principle of abstraction.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.

