Phenomenalism : a metaphysics of chance and experience / Michael Pelczar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pelczar, Michael, 1972- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Phenomenalism.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Phenomenalism develops the claim that physical objects are constructions out of possible sensations. Michael Pelczar defends this view against objections and uses it to illuminate topics in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics.

Contents:

Cover

Phenomenalism: A Metaphysics of Chance and Experience

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

List of Figures

1. The World as Hypertext

2. Mill's Metaphysics

2.1 The genealogy of phenomenalism

2.2 Kant without noumena

2.3 Mill misunderstood

2.3.1 Scarre's reading

2.3.1.1 An inadmissible switch of modalities

2.3.1.2 Non-mental laws

2.3.1.3 Idealism vs. immaterialism

2.3.2 Skorupski's reading

2.3.3 Hamilton's reading

2.3.3.1 Ontological neutrality

2.3.3.2 Brute regularities in experience

2.3.3.3 Mind-dependence

2.4 Legacy issues

3. A Signal in the Noise

3.1 Physical reality as explanatory posit

3.2 "Real things" vs. noumena

3.3 Noumena vs. possibilities of sensation

3.4 The superfluity of Substance

3.5 The ultimate sin in metaphysics?

4. Possibilities for What?

4.1 The challenge of intersubjectivity

4.2 Physical spacetime

4.3 Ideal spacetime

4.4 Ideal events

4.5 Reduction or elimination?

5. What Kind of Possibility?

5.1 Counterfactual possibility

5.2 Phenomenal probabilities

5.3 The phenomenalist worldview

6. A Revealing Correspondence

6.1 A thing for every possibility

6.2 A possibility for every thing

6.3 An explanation by identification

6.3.1 The modal argument against phenomenalism

6.3.2 The knowledge argument against phenomenalism

6.3.3 The Johnsonian argument against phenomenalism

6.3.4 Too much oomph?

7. Phenomenalism and Science

7.1 Physics and experience

7.2 Phenomenalism and scientific language

7.3 Phenomenalism and structuralism

8. Phenomenalism and Consciousness

8.1 The mystery of consciousness

8.2 Orthodox phenomenalism

8.3 Materialistic phenomenalism

8.4 Panpsychist phenomenalism

8.5 Panoptic phenomenalism

9. A Phenomenalist Theory of Perception.

9.1 Three questions about perception

9.2 Representationalism and naive realism

9.2.1 Representationalism

9.2.2 Naive realism

9.3 The phenomenalist theory

9.4 Phenomenalists, Berkeley, and the folk

10. Choose Your Own Adventure

APPENDIX: Defining Spacetime Relations

References

Index of Names

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Pelczar, Michael Phenomenalism

ISBN:

0-19-196474-3

0-19-269518-5

0-19-269519-3