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...it would be hard to find on the contemporary philosophic scene a better advocate of the idealistic standpoint than John Foster. Pierfrancesco Basile, Times Literary Supplement One of the scandals of philosophy is the tyranny of fashion. Idealism, once so popular, is now largely ignored. Thank God , then, for those such as Foster who show us that far from being refuted, it can be argued for with at least as much cogency sd other metaphysical theses which are taken much more seriously. Here John Foster builds on his 1982 book The Case for Idealism, presenting that case in a more accessible form, and reaching a slightly different conclusion... I...commend this fine book to readers Peter Forrest, The Philosophical Quarterly

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John Foster was tutorial Fellow of Brasenose College 1966-2005 and was then been an Emeritus Fellow until 2009. His research interests have been in the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, mind, and language. He is the author of The Case for Idealism (1982), Ayer (1985), The Immaterial Self (1991), The Nature of Perception (2000), and The Divine Lawmaker (2004).

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