Timothy Sprigge advanced an original synthesis of panpsychism and of absolute idealism. He argued that consciousness is an irreducible and subjective reality that is only grasped by an introspective and phenomenological approach and constructed his ontology from what is revealed in the phenomenology itself. In defending the unique place of metaphysics in the pursuit of truth he claimed that scientific investigation can never discover the essence of consciousness since it can only provide descriptions of structure and function in what we normally think of as physical existence itself. In this paper he presents a critical evaluation of Sprigge's view focusing in particular on his conception of the nature of scientific inquiry vis-à-vis vis-à-vis the ambitious project of his meta physics. I argue that a naturalistic metaphysics provides a more adequate approach to the relation between science and metaphysics. I hope that i am on the right track somewhat.

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I have locked this topic as the OP is a copy and paste from here

 

ajaysinghgoshiyal do not copy and paste with out attribution - and do not start threads merely to append one fairly meaningless line to another persons work.