Idealism
Paul Guyer, Rolf-Peter Horstmann · 2023 · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This source is used as context evidence across 2 linked claims and 3 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Historical and contemporary survey of idealism — the family of views on which reality is fundamentally mental.
How this source is used on the map
The reference for what 'reality is consciousness' / Berkeleyan / analytic idealism actually claims.
Citation record
- Authors
- Paul Guyer, Rolf-Peter Horstmann
- Year
- 2023
- Publication
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Source type
- Philosophy reference
- Map role
- context
- Credibility level
- primary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- Not recorded
- PubMed
- Not recorded
- Not recorded
Linked claims
If consciousness is basic, the 'hard problem' dissolves. The cost is a major break with the standard physicalist picture.
From Berkeley to Kastrup: matter is appearance within a more fundamental mind. Coherent, ancient, contested.
Related evidence hubs
Related research reports
A comparative guide to materialism, dualism, panpsychism, idealism, filter theories, and consciousness-first interpretations.
A balanced synthesis of the strongest and weakest evidence across afterlife, consciousness, reincarnation, mystical, psi, and practice claims.
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The reference for what mind-body dualism means and why most contemporary philosophers reject it.
Pulls together the conceptual frameworks behind every empirical claim about consciousness.
Steel-manned version of the panpsychist position, distinct from popular caricatures.
Defines the technical concept ('what it is like') most often invoked in disputes about consciousness.
A key bridge source: it is not proof of panpsychism, but it explains why some consciousness researchers treat mind-like properties as potentially graded and widespread.
The single most-cited critique of pure physicalist accounts of mind.