The Importance of Subjectivity

Timothy L. S. Sprigge (1932-2007) was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge working under R. T. H. Redpath and, later, A. J. Ayer. Professor Sprigge held positions teaching philosophy at University College London, Sussex University and, as a visiting professor, at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and President of the Aristotelian Society.Leemon B. McHenry is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Northridge. In 2007, he co-edited with Pierfrancesco Basile a Festschrift honouring T. L. S. Sprigge, Consciousness, Reality, and Value: Essays in Honour of T. L. S. Sprigge (Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2007). McHenry has taught philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Old Dominion University, Davidson College, Central Michigan University, and held research positions at the Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. He became literary executor to T. L. S. Sprigge in 2007.

• Introduction ; PART I: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE METAPHYSICS OF EXPERIENCE ; 1. Orientations ; 2. What I Believe ; 3. The Privacy of Experience ; 4. Final Causes ; 5. The Importance of Subjectivity: An Inaugural Lecture ; 6. Is Consciousness Mysterious? ; 7. Consciousness ; 8. The Distinctiveness of American Philosophy ; 9. The World of Description and the World of Acquaintance ; PART II: THE METAPHYSICS OF TIME AND THE ABSOLUTE ; 10. The Unreality of Time ; 11. Ideal Immortality ; 12. Bradley and Russell on Relations ; 13. The Self and Its World in Bradley and Husserl ; 14. Absolute Idealism ; 15. Pantheism ; PART III: ETHICS, ANIMAL RIGHTS, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ; 16. The Greatest Happiness Principle ; 17. Is the Esse of Intrinsic Value Percipi? Pleasure, Pain and Value ; 18. Metaphysics, Physicalism and Animal Rights ; 19. Vivisection, Morals and Medicine: Commentary From an Anti-Vivisectionist Philosopher ; 20. Non-Human Rights: An Idealist Perspective ; 21. Are There Intrinsic Values in Nature ; 22. An Idealist's Prayer for the World ; Acknowledgements ; Selected Bibliography of T. L. S. Sprigge ; Index

[a] fine collection of essays