Contingent Immaterialism: Meaning, Freedom, Time and Mind: Hardcover – August 26, 2025

Contingent Immaterialism traces the "simplicity argument" in its novel aspects using a "History of Ideas" approach or methodology. The chapters progress chronologically, covering a representative sampling of the different writers inculved in the history of the argument's revolutionary uses in order to show that there is a conceptual continuity of related problems and proposed solutions that stem from the basic form of the simplicity argument and that this proof has enjoyed, in the History of Ideas, a "life of its own". Chapter I provides an introduction to the simplicity argument in the context of previous studies. Chapter II discusses meanings and relations with respect to the simplicity argument. Chapter III investigates the freedom of self-consciousness and the simplicity argument. Chapter IV explores the simplicity argument and time in the work of Schopenhauer and Bergson. Chapter V contrasts the simplicity argument with the materialist theory of mind. Chapter VI examines the transcendences of consciousness. Chapter VII discusses time-consciousness. Finally, Chapter VIII, using as a backdrop the various aspects of the simplicity argument, provides an interdisciplinary approach to and study of human loneliness. Read more