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The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) : intellectual life in mid-Victorian England /

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The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Century) with a view to 'collect, arrange and diffuse knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral phenomena' (first resolution...

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Other Authors: Marshall, Catherine, 1973- (Editor), Lightman, Bernard V., 1950- (Editor), England, Richard, 1968 October 7- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Metaphysical Society (Great Britain)
Learned institutions and societies > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the metaphysical society in context / Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman, Richard England
  • The personalization of intellectual combat : James Fitzjames Stephen and the metaphysical society / Bruce Kinzer
  • The editors of the metaphysical society, or disseminating the ideas of the metaphysicians / Catherine Marshall
  • Liberalism and the metaphysical society / Andrew Vincent
  • 'The cross-examination of the physiologist' : T.H. Huxley and the resurrection / Gowan Dawson
  • Cause, nature, and the limits of language : Martineau and Maurice on the philosophical necessity of theism / Richard England
  • Expertise in the miracles debate / Anne DeWitt
  • Hodgson, Clifford, and the unseen universe / W.J. Mander
  • Evolution, ethics, and the metaphysical society, 1869-1875 / Ian Hesketh
  • Between intuition and empiricism : William Benjamin Carpenter on man, mind, and moral responsibility / Piers J. Hale
  • Intuitionism, religious belief, and proof in the papers of the metaphysical society / William Sweet
  • Catholics and the metaphysical basis of science / Bernard Lightman.