Why Solipsism Matters
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 28 May 2020
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350126398
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 214x138x14 mm
- Weight 324 g
- Language English 65
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Solipsism is one of the philosophical thesis or ideas that has generally been regarded as highly implausible, or even crazy. The view that the world is "my world" in the sense that nothing exists independently of my mind, thought, and/or experience is, understandably, frowned up as a genuine philosophical position. For this reason, solipsism might be regarded as an example of a philosophical position that does not "matter" at all. It does not seem to play any role in our serious attempts to understand the world and ourselves. However, by arguing that solipsism does matter, after all, Why Solipsism Matters more generally demonstrates that philosophy, even when dealing with highly counterintuitive and "crazy" ideas, may matter in surprising, unexpected ways. It will be shown that the challenge of solipsism should make us rethink fundamental assumptions concerning subjectivity, objectivity, realism vs. idealism, relativism, as well as key topics such as ethical responsibility - that is, our ethical relations to other human beings - and death and mortality.
Why Solipsism Matters is not only an historical review of the origins and development of the concept of solipsism and a exploration of some of its key philosophers (Kant and Wittgenstein to name but a few) but it develops an entirely new account of the idea. One which takes seriously the global, socially networked world in which we live in which the very real ramifications of solipsism - including narcissism - can be felt.
Table of Contents:
prelims
1. Introduction
1.1. Why Solipsism?
1.2. Some Varieties of Solipsism
2. Metaphysical and Skeptical Solipsism
2.1. Historical Preliminaries and Contemporary Issues
2.2. Classical Metaphysical and Epistemological Solipsism: The Cartesian Legacy
2.3. Methodological Solipsism
3. Transcendental Solipsism
3.1. Kantian Idealism: The Rise of the Transcendental Ego
3.2. Phenomenology and Intersubjectivity
3.3. Transcendental Solipsism in Wittgenstein
4. Refuting Solipsism
4.1. Arguing against Solipsism
4.2. Solipsism vs. Realism
5. The Relevance of Solipsism
5.1. Facing Otherness
5.2. Solipsism and Death
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