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Marking the Centenary of Samuel Alexander's Space, Time and Deity

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Includes three previously unpublished papers by Samuel Alexander; shedding light on his metaphysical commitments about time, universals, God, knowledge of past truths, grounding, and inference in logic and science.
  • Showcases new essays by current scholars; exploring metaphysical realism, idealism, naturalism, space and time, process ontology, ontological categories, epistemology, perception, philosophy of history, emergentism, and empiricism.
  • Includes two important posthumous chapters by philosophers of the mid-twentieth century, who elaborate on Samuel Alexander’s life and most significant contributions.

Part of the book series: History of Analytic Philosophy (History of Analytic Philosophy)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    • A. R. J. Fisher
    Pages 1-20
  3. Posthumous Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
    2. On Taking Time Seriously (1914)

      • S. Alexander
      Pages 23-39
    3. The Reality of the Past (1915)

      • S. Alexander
      Pages 41-58
    4. Ground and Cause (1922)

      • S. Alexander
      Pages 59-75
    5. Samuel Alexander in Manchester

      • Dorothy Emmet
      Pages 77-88
    6. Samuel Alexander and the Analytical Introverts

      • Donald C. Williams
      Pages 89-106
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 237-245

About this book

This book is an edited collection of essays in celebration of the centenary of Samuel Alexander’s Space, Time and Deity, published in 1920. Samuel Alexander (1859-1938) was a leading figure of British philosophy in the early twentieth century. He was partly responsible for the ‘new realism’ movement along with G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell. However, his work has been overlooked in developments of twentieth century philosophy and yet his theories and style of theorising are in vogue. This book begins with three previously unpublished papers by Alexander that shed light on his metaphysical commitments about time, universals, God, knowledge of past truths, grounding, and inference in logic and science. There are also two important posthumous chapters by philosophers of the mid-twentieth century, who elaborate on his life and most significant contributions. The second half of the book contains new essays by current scholars, discussing Alexander on metaphysical realism,idealism, naturalism, space and time, process ontology, ontological categories, epistemology, perception, philosophy of history, emergentism, and empiricism.



Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    A.R.J. Fisher

About the editor

A.R.J. Fisher is a Lecturer at the University of Washington, USA. He works on the metaphysics of properties, time and modality as well as history of twentieth century metaphysics.   




Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Marking the Centenary of Samuel Alexander's Space, Time and Deity

  • Editors: A.R.J. Fisher

  • Series Title: History of Analytic Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65121-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65120-6Published: 05 June 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65123-7Published: 06 June 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65121-3Published: 04 June 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2634-5994

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6001

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 245

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Metaphysics, Analytic Philosophy

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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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