Timothy Sprigge

Timothy LS Sprigge (born January 14, 1932 in London , † July 11, 2007 ) was an idealistic philosopher who taught logic and metaphysics for a long time in Edinburgh .

Life

His main areas of work included the nature of perception and the relationship between mind and reality; he is best known for his defense of a panpsychic absolute idealism. According to Sprigge, reality consists of elements of experience that come together to form a coherent whole.

Sprigge was influenced by F. H. Bradley , William James , Alfred North Whitehead , Josiah Royce and George Santayana , among others .

The question prominently discussed by Thomas Nagel : “What is it like to be a bat?” Has already been asked by Sprigge.

Sprigge was President of the Aristotelian Society from 1991-1992 and a Fellow at the Royal Society of Edinburgh . He defended extensive animal rights as part of a utilitarian ethic .

Works

• The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham (1968)
• Facts, Words and Beliefs. International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method (1970)
• Santayana: An examination of his philosophy (The Arguments of the philosophers) (1974)
• The Vindication of Absolute Idealism (1984)
• Theories of Existence (1985)
• The Rational Foundation of Ethics (1988)
• The significance of Spinoza's determinism (Mededelingen vanwege het Spinozahuis) (1989)
• James and Bradley: American Truth and British Reality (1994)
• The God of Metaphysics (2006)

literature

• Consciousness, Reality and Value: Essays in Honor of TLS Sprigge , Ontos Verlag 2007
• TLS Sprigge et al .: Pantheism . In: The monist; vol. 80, no.2 (1997, April). Hegeler Institute, La Salle IL 1997.

Web links

• Literature by and about Timothy Sprigge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Vita, bibliography, poems
• Leemon McHenry: Obituary (PDF; 88 kB)
• Obituary in the Guardian
• Obituary in the telegraph

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TLS Sprigge: Final Causes . In: Supplementary Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 1971