Idealism is the view that reality is fundamentally mental. Idealism has been influential historically, but it has been neglected in contemporary metaphysical debate. This volume of 17 essays by leading philosophers rectifies the situation.

Tyron Goldschmidt is a visiting assistant professor in philosophy at Wake Forest University. He has journal publications in metaphysics, philosophy of religion and the history of philosophy. He co-authored Berkeley's Principles: Expanded and Explained (Routledge, 2016) and edited The Puzzle of Existence: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? (Routledge, 2013).
Kenneth Pearce is Ussher Assistant Professor in Berkeley Studies (Early Modern Philosophy) at Trinity College Dublin. He has journal publications in early modern philosophy, metaphysics and philosophy of religion. He is the author of Language and the Structure of Berkeley's World (OUP, 2017).

• Introduction


• 1: Todd Buras and Trent Dougherty: Parrying Parity: A Reply to a Reidian Critique of Idealism


• 2: Robert Smithson: A New Epistemic Argument for Idealism


• 3: Aaron Segal and Tyron Goldschmidt: The Necessity of Idealism


• 4: Graham Oppy: Against Idealism


• 5: Helen Yetter Chappell: Idealism Without God


• 6: Nicholas Stang: Transcendental Idealism Without Tears


• 7: Arif Ahmed: Signaling Systems and the Transcendental Deduction


• 8: Thomas Hofweber: Conceptual Idealism Without Ontological Idealism: Why Idealism Is True After All


• 9: Kris McDaniel: The Idealism of Mary Whiton Calkins


• 10: Sam Lebens: Hassidic Idealism: Kurt Vonnegut and the Creator of the Universe


• 11: Bronwyn Finnigan: Buddhist Idealism


• 12: Kenneth Pearce: Mereological Idealism


• 13: Sara Bernstein: Causal Idealism


• 14: Daniel Greco: Explanation, Idealism, and Design


• 15: Jacob Ross: Idealism and Fine-Tuning


• 16: Marc Lange: Idealism and Incommensurability


• 17: Susan Schneider: Idealism, or Something Near Enough