World for Us: The Case for Phenomenalistic Idealism

by John Foster and John Foster

A World for Us aims to refute physical realism and establish in its place a form of idealism. Physical realism, in the sense in which John Foster understands it, takes the physical world to be something whose existence is both logically independent of the human mind and metaphysically fundamental. Foster identifies a number of problems for this realist view, but his main objection is that it does not accord the world the requisite empirical immanence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199297134
• ISBN13: 9780199297139
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"