The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) intellectual life in mid-Victorian England

"The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to 'collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral phenomena' (first reso...

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Weitere Verfasser: Marshall, Catherine 1973- (HerausgeberIn), Lightman, Bernard V. 1950- (HerausgeberIn), England, Richard (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York, NY Oxford University Press 2019
Ausgabe:First edition
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : the metaphysical society in context / Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman, Richard England
  • The personalization of intellectual combat : James Fitzjames Stephen and the metaphysical society / Bruce Kinzer
  • The editors of the metaphysical society, or disseminating the ideas of the metaphysicians / Catherine Marshall
  • Liberalism and the metaphysical society / Andrew Vincent
  • 'The cross-examination of the physiologist' : T.H. Huxley and the resurrection / Gowan Dawson
  • Cause, nature, and the limits of language : Martineau and Maurice on the philosophical necessity of theism / Richard England
  • Expertise in the miracles debate / Anne DeWitt
  • Hodgson, Clifford, and the unseen universe / W.J. Mander
  • Evolution, ethics, and the metaphysical society, 1869-1875 / Ian Hesketh
  • Between intuition and empiricism : William Benjamin Carpenter on man, mind, and moral responsibility / Piers J. Hale
  • Intuitionism, religious belief, and proof in the papers of the metaphysical society / William Sweet
  • Catholics and the metaphysical basis of science / Bernard Lightman