Autorentext

Lukas M. Verburgt is Gerda Henkel Stiftung Research Scholar and affiliated to the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), the Netherlands.

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A History of Cambridge Idealism fills a gap in the history of modern philosophy. Focused on Trinity College between the turn of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, it offers the first-ever account of philosophical idealism at Cambridge. From wholehearted acceptance to outright rejection, it explores the various kinds of interactions philosophers had with idealism, covering key aspects of this tradition's introduction, reception, influence, and legacy.

What emerges is a surprising lineage of both forgotten and world-renowned philosophers, including Coleridge, Whewell, Grote, Sidgwick, Ward and Stout as well as McTaggart, Moore, Russell, C.D. Broad, Wittgenstein and Oakeshott. Some of the chapters put long-neglected figures back on the intellectual map, adding to recent efforts to broaden the philosophical canon. Other chapters present original accounts of more well-known names, offering fresh interpretations that situate their work and ideas within the philosophical climate of their alma mater and beyond.

Taken together, this collection brings together an exciting team of scholars to present a rich, detailed picture of Cambridge philosophy, taking the study of British Idealism beyond its traditional focus as well as providing new insights into the historical roots of analytical philosophy.

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Introduction: The Challenge of Idealism
Lukas M. Verburgt

PART I: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

1. The Reception of German Idealism at Trinity, 1804-1850
   Giles Whiteley
2. Julius Hare, Connop Thirlwall and F.D. Maurice
   William Ashworth
3. Whewell's Creative Adaptation of Kant's Idealism
   Andrew Cooper
4. John Grote: Trinity Idealist
   John R. Gibbins
5. Cambridge Critique of Empiricism: From De Morgan and
   Ellis to Venn and Balfour
   Lukas M. Verburgt
6. What Did Henry Sidgwick Think of Idealism? The Case of T.H. Green
   Bart Schultz
7. Alfred Marshall's Eclectic Idealism
   Marco Dardi
8. Rethinking Nature: James Ward's Pluralistic Idealism
   William Sweet
9. W.R. Sorley on Morality, Necessity, and Mysticism
   Oliver Spinney
10. G.F. Stout
    Fraser MacBride

PART II: TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

11. 'Loving Spirits': The Idealism of J.M.E. McTaggart
    James Connelly
12. Moore's Idealism Before and After 1899
    Consuelo Preti
13. Russell on the Philosophical and the Mathematical from The Foundations of Geometry to The Principles of Mathematics
    Sean Morris
14. Moore's 'Refutation of Idealism' versus Ward and Stout; and Russell on Acquaintance
    James Levine
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    PART III: EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY**
15. Idealism in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
    Michael Potter
16. Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism: Turning Idealism Inside Out
    Matthew David Segall
17. Cambridge Philosophers on McTaggart's Paradox: C.D. Broad, J.S. Mackenzie, L.S. Stebbing and R.B. Braithwaite
    R.D. Ingthorsson
18. Idealism in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy
    *David Cerbone

• PART IV: EPILOGUE

19. The Afterlife of Idealism in Michael Oakeshott's Philosophy of History
    Giuseppina D'Oro
    Index