Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality

Do human beings have a special place in reality? Thomas Hofweber argues that we are special because there is an intimate connection between our human minds and reality itself. His form of idealism holds that our minds constrain, but do not construct, reality, which is the totality of facts, things taken to be completely independent of us.

Thomas Hofweber is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He specializes in metaphysics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mathematics. He is the author of Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2016) besides numerous articles.

- Preface - 1: Idealism and our place in the world - 2: Forms of idealism we should reject - 3: Conceptual idealism: the basic idea - 4: The internalist conception of facts - 5: Harmony and ineffability - 6: Inescapable concepts - 7: The immanent stance - 8: Conceptual idealism: the overall picture - Bibliography