Overview
- Includes three previously unpublished papers by Samuel Alexander; shedding light on his metaphysical commitments about time, universals, God, knowledge of past truths, grounding, and inference in logic and science.
- Showcases new essays by current scholars; exploring metaphysical realism, idealism, naturalism, space and time, process ontology, ontological categories, epistemology, perception, philosophy of history, emergentism, and empiricism.
- Includes two important posthumous chapters by philosophers of the mid-twentieth century, who elaborate on Samuel Alexander’s life and most significant contributions.
Part of the book series: History of Analytic Philosophy (History of Analytic Philosophy)
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This book is an edited collection of essays in celebration of the centenary of Samuel Alexander’s Space, Time and Deity, published in 1920. Samuel Alexander (1859-1938) was a leading figure of British philosophy in the early twentieth century. He was partly responsible for the ‘new realism’ movement along with G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell. However, his work has been overlooked in developments of twentieth century philosophy and yet his theories and style of theorising are in vogue. This book begins with three previously unpublished papers by Alexander that shed light on his metaphysical commitments about time, universals, God, knowledge of past truths, grounding, and inference in logic and science. There are also two important posthumous chapters by philosophers of the mid-twentieth century, who elaborate on his life and most significant contributions. The second half of the book contains new essays by current scholars, discussing Alexander on metaphysical realism,idealism, naturalism, space and time, process ontology, ontological categories, epistemology, perception, philosophy of history, emergentism, and empiricism.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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New Essays
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
A.R.J. Fisher is a Lecturer at the University of Washington, USA. He works on the metaphysics of properties, time and modality as well as history of twentieth century metaphysics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marking the Centenary of Samuel Alexander's Space, Time and Deity
Editors: A.R.J. Fisher
Series Title: History of Analytic Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65121-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65120-6Published: 05 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65123-7Published: 06 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65121-3Published: 04 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-5994
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6001
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 245
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Metaphysics, Analytic Philosophy