Tradition
Subjective idealism
Overview
Subjective idealism, or empirical idealism or immaterialism, is a form of ontological monism that holds that only minds and mental contents exist. It entails and is generally identified or associated with immaterialism, the doctrine that material things do not exist. Subjective idealism rejects dualism, neutral monism, and materialism; it is the contrary of eliminative materialism, the doctrine that all or some classes of mental phenomena (such as emotions, beliefs, or desires) do not exist, but are sheer illusions.
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So far as this goes, the Kantian Criticism presents that 'common' type of idealism known as Subjective Idealism. It asks no questions about the meaning or scope of the categories, but simply considers the abstract form of subjectivity and objectivity, and that even in such a partial way, that the former aspect, that of…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
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The word 'idealism' is used by different philosophers in somewhat different senses. We shall understand by it the doctrine that whatever exists, or at any rate whatever can be known to exist, must be in some sense mental.
Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy
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Idealism—I mean material idealism—is the theory which declares the existence of objects in space without us to be either () doubtful and indemonstrable, or (2) false and impossible. The first is the problematical idealism of Descartes, who admits the undoubted certainty of only one empirical assertion (assertio), to wit, “I am.” The second is the dogmatical idealism of Berkeley, who maintains that…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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Philosophers who discussed Subjective idealism
- George Berkeley
- David Stove
- William Godwin
- Immanuel Kant
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Jean Baudrillard
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
- Paul Brunton
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Noumenon
- Absolute idealism
- George Berkeley
- David Stove
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Pyrrhonism
- Immanuel Kant
- John Searle
- Ireland
- Idealism
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Logical equivalence
- Mind–body dualism
- Dharmakirti
- Monism
- Materialism
- Mind
- Augustine of Hippo
- Richard Rorty
- Neutral monism
- Platonism
- Ontology
- Arthur Eddington
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.