World as Idea: Creating reality through concepts

by Charlie Huenemann

Do we ever experience anything other than our own minds? The philosophical idealists, from Kant to Kuhn, argued that we never see the world itself - we only encounter our ideas of it. This seems plausible; but, then again, how can we say this while knowing that sometimes our ideas are wrong, and that reality often complains loudly against our beliefs? What happens, in other words, when idealists trip on the carpet?

27 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 4, 2017