The Phenomenal Tapestry
Helen Yetter-Chappell
The View from Everywhere April 25, 2025 DOI: 10.1093/9780197795057.003.0002 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Proposes a nontheistic idealist account on which physical reality is a tapestry of indexed phenomenology—experiences corresponding to all possible experiences—woven into a cohesive world by the same relations that structure our own minds. |
Abstract
Abstract Chapter 2 develops the nontheistic idealist account of the nature of reality—focusing on the contents and structure of the physical world. For the nontheistic idealist, physical reality is like a tapestry, weaving threads of phenomenology into a world of structured color, warmth, sound, and taste. The primary questions this chapter answers are: (i) What sorts of experiences make up the tapestry? And (ii) how are these experiential threads structured so as to form a cohesive unit that functions as our world? On the view that emerges, the threads are indexed phenomenology corresponding to all possible experiences and are woven into a world via the same relations that structure our own minds.
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