Timothy L.S. Sprigge (January 14, 1932 in London – July 11, 2007) was a British idealist philosopher who spent the latter portion of his career at the University of Edinburgh, where he was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics and then an Emeritus Fellow.
Sprigge was educated at the Dragon School, Bryanston and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Long concerned with the nature of experience and the relation between mind and reality, Sprigge was t...
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Timothy L.S. Sprigge (January 14, 1932 in London – July 11, 2007) was a British idealist philosopher who spent the latter portion of his career at the University of Edinburgh, where he was Professor of Logic and Metaphysics and then an Emeritus Fellow.
Sprigge was educated at the Dragon School, Bryanston and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Long concerned with the nature of experience and the relation between mind and reality, Sprigge was the philosopher who first posed the question made famous by Thomas Nagel: "What is it like to be a bat?" Throughout Sprigge's career he argued physicalism or materialism is not only false but has contributed to a distortion of our moral sense. There is, he claims, something non-physical to what a human being is and also to animals of a higher sort.
The author of The Vindication of Absolute Idealism (1984), Sprigge defended a panpsychist version of absolute idealism according to which reality consists of bits of experience combined into a...
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