Idealism and Reality | James Tartaglia

In this talk James Tartaglia re-examines knowledge, reality and truth.

The world's greatest minds have struggled over the question of consciousness for centuries. Idealism, the idea that reality is the product of the mind, was a popular idea in the 19th century. But over the last hundred years, materialism became the dominant metaphysics. With faith in materialism starting to wane, Philosopher James Tartaglia breaks down the consciousness misconceptions and discusses why he believes that idealism is making a comeback.

"He challenges idealism in original and inventive ways." - Tim Crane

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James Tartaglia is a British philosopher and author of Philosophy in a Meaningless Life and Philosophy in a Technological World: Gods and Titans. His main interest is in understanding and enhancing awareness of the nature of philosophical inquiry.

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[MonisticIdealism]

Idealism is long overdue for a comeback. Materialism suffers from the hard problem of consciousness and dualism suffers from the interaction problem. Idealism preserves the irreducibility of consciousness, like the dualist wants, while also preserving monism, which the materialist wants. Therefore idealism is a view that has all the strengths of materialism and dualism, but without any of their weaknesses.

[martinwilliams]

For me, one of the main problems, is the thinking that a particular hypothesis has been proven, Materialism/Physicalism was never proved, & Idealism never falsified, but for ages people behaved as though they were, we're still doing it with many hypothesis, Dark matter, Black holes, the Big Bang, Neuronal correlates of Consciousness etc etc.

[realcygnus]

As old as the basic premise may be, something like Kastrup's alters is what currently connects the most dots & by far IMO.

[patrickdelarosa]

Since quantum mechanics materialism is doomed, Bernardo Kastrup’s analytical idealism gives the best argumentation for idealism based on in science, reason and logic, I really recommended.