Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell

As the failures of physicalism begin to shake theconfidence of even the most biased of its supporters, a new view on the nature of reality is establishing itself as the only tenable alternative: Analytic Idealism. According to it,there is a world out there independent of our individual minds, but suchworld is - just like ourselves - also mentalor experiential. While being a realist, naturalist, rationalist, and even reductionist view, Analytic Idealism flips our culture-bound intuitions on their head, revealing thatonly through understanding our own inner naturecan we understand the nature of the world. This book embodies its author's years-long experience on how best to explain Analytic Idealism to someone who has never studied it before, and has no background in the technical fields involved. It meets the readers where they are, holding their hand as they are shown - through a series of evocative metaphors - how to see throughtheir own unexamined assumptions, so to realize how the impossible dilemas of physicalism disappear when natureis regarded from aslightlydifferent slant.The conclusions havetremendous implications for our values and way of life, as well asour understanding of purpose,self, identity, and death.