Timothy Sprigge

Timothy L.S. Sprigge ( born January 14, 1932 in London, † 11 July 2007) was an idealist philosopher who taught for a long time in Edinburgh logic and metaphysics.

Life

His main points included the nature of perception and the relationship between mind and reality; He is best known for his defense of a panpsychischen absolute idealism. After Sprigge is the reality of experience elements that add up to a coherent whole.

Was influenced Sprigge inter alia by F. H. Bradley, William James, Alfred North Whitehead, Josiah Royce and George Santayana.

The Thomas Nagel prominently discussed question: " What is it like to be a bat " has already been provided by Sprigge.

Sprigge 1991-1992 was president of the Aristotelian Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He defended in the context of utilitarian ethics extensive rights of animals.

Works

• The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham (1968 )
• Facts, Words and Beliefs. International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method (1970 )
• Santayana: An examination of his philosophy (The Arguments of the philosophers ) ( 1974)
• The Vindication of Absolute Idealism (1984 )
• Theories of Existence (1985 )
• The Rational Foundation of Ethics (1988 )
• The Significance of Spinoza 's determinism ( Mededelingen vanwege het Spinozahuis ) ( 1989)
• James and Bradley: American Truth and British Reality ( 1994)
• The God of Metaphysics (2006)