Realism and anti-realism II: Materialism and idealism
Channel: Jan Willem Lindemans
Date: 2011-12-07

This is the second in a series of tutorials on the realism debate. Here, I discuss idealism as an anti-realist philosophy. Idealists claim that there is no mind-independent reality (or we definitely have no access to such a reality): "Ideas" is everything there is. The world is not made of "matter" as the "materialists" hold: It is "made of" ideas. Enjoy Jan Academy!