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Ausgabe:

Mai/2021

Spalte:

450–452

Kategorie:

Philosophie, Religionsphilosophie

Autor/Hrsg.:

MacEwen, Philip [Ed.]

Titel/Untertitel:

Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science.

Verlag:

Leiden u. a.: Brill 2019. 326 S. Geb. EUR 138,00. ISBN 9789004415263.

Rezensent:

Atle O. Søvik

We can make a coarse distinction between materialists, claiming that fundamentally everything is physical, and idealists, claiming that fundamentally everything is non-physical. The anthology Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science offers different perspectives on philosophy of science, of which idealist perspectives are central.
The book starts with an introduction where Philip MacEwen offers a concise presentation of each chapter. There are three sys-tematic chapters and five historical chapters. A reviewer can always say that there should be more of this or that, but a book for a broad-er audience cannot cover everything. When this reviewer makes comments about things gone amiss, they should not be taken as important objections to the book, ...


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