Timothy L. S. Sprigge

(January 14, 1932 in London – July 11, 2007)



Degrees: Ph.D. Cambridge University, 1961.

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Education and Academic Positions

 


PUBLICATIONS OF TIMOTHY LAURO SQUIRE SPRIGGE

 

The Limits of Morals Defined. Dissertation, Cambridge University, 1961.

"Internal and External Properties." Mind 71.2 (April 1963): 197-212.

"Definition of a Moral Judgement." Philosophy 39 (October 1964): 301-322. Reprinted in The Defintion of Morality, ed. Gerald Wallace and A. D. M. Walker (London: Methuen, 1970), pp. 119-145.

"A Utilitarian Reply to Dr. McCloskey’s ‘A Non-Utilitarian Approach to Punishment’." Inquiry 8 (Autumn 1965): 264-291. Reprinted as "A Utilitarian Reply to Dr. McCloskey" in Contemporary Utilitarianism, ed. Michael D. Bayle (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1965), pp. 261-299. Reprinted in shortened form in Philosophical Perspectives on Punishment, ed. Gretrude Ezorsky (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1972), pp. 66-79.

"The Common-Sense View of Physical Objects." Inquiry 9 (Winter 1966): 339-373.

The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, 2 vols. Edited and annotated by T. L. S. Sprigge. London: Athlone Press, 1968. xliv + 383 pp. and xvi + 542 pp.

"Professor Narveson’s Utilitarianism." Inquiry 11.3 (Fall 1968): 332-345.

"The Privacy of Experience." Mind 78.4 (October 1969): 512-521.

"Santayana and Verificationism." Inquiry 12.3 (Fall 1969): 265-286.

"Review Discussion: Santayana." Inquiry 12 (1969): 362-366.

Facts, Words and Beliefs. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970. viii + 351 pp. Reprinted as Greggs Classic, 1995.

"The Analytical Solipsism of William Todd." Inquiry 13 (1970): 462-468.

"Glover on Responsibility." Inquiry 14 (1971): 464-471.

"Final Causes." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplement 45 (1971): 149-170.

"Ideal Immortality." Southern Journal of Philosophy 10 (Summer 1972): 219-236.

Santayana: An Examination of his Philosophy. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974. xii + 247 pp. 2nd ed. with new introduction, 1995.

"Consciousness." In The Ontological Turn: Essays in the Philosophy of Gustav Bergmann, ed. E. Klemke and M. S. Gram (Ames: Iowa University Press, 1974), pp. 114-147.

"Punishment and Moral Responsibility." In Punishment and Human Rights, ed. M. Goldinger (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974), pp. 85-96.

"Quinton’s Half-Hearted Ontology." Inquiry 18 (1975): 355-366.

"Reinhardt Grossmann’s Ontological Reduction." Nous 9 (1975): 429-445.

"Spinoza’s Identity Theory." Inquiry 20.4 (Winter 1977): 419-445. Reprinted in Philosophy Through Its Past, ed. Ted Honderich (Harmondsport: Pelican Books, 1984), pp. 145-174.

"The Animal Welfare Movement and the Foundations of Ethics." In Animal Rights: A Symposium, ed. David Paterson and Richard Ryder (Fontwell: Centaur Press, 1978), pp. 87-95.

"Language and Metaphysics." Theoria to Theory 12 (April 1978): 75-78.

"Metaphysical Enquiry." Theoria to Theory 12 (July 1978): 135-149.

"Bradley and Russell on Relations." In Bertrand Russell Memorial Volume, ed. George Roberts (London: Allen and Unwin, 1979), pp. 150-170.

"Metaphysics, Physicalism, and Animal Rights." Inquiry 22.2 (Summer 1979): 101-143.

"The Distinctiveness of American Philosophy." In Two Centuries of American Philosophy, ed. Peter Caws (Oxford: Blackwell, 1980), pp. 199-214.

"James, Santayana, Tarski, and Pragmatism." In Pragmatism and Purpose: Essays Presented to Thomas Goudge, ed. L. W. Sumner et al. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981), pp. 105-120.

"Knowledge of Subjectivity." Theoria to Theory 14 (June 1981): 313-325.

"Intellect at the Mercy of Will." Times Higher Education Supplement n. 433 (20 February 1982): 12.

"Honderich, Davidson, and the Question of Mental Holism." Inquiry 24 (October 1981): 323-342.

"The Importance of Subjectivity: An Inaugural Lecture." Inquiry 25.2 (June 1982): 143-163.

"Vivisection, Morals, Medicine: Commentary from an Anti-vivisectionist Philosopher." Journal of Medical Ethics 9.2 (June 1982): 98-100.

The Vindication of Absolute Idealism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1983. xiv + 291 pp.

Theories of Existence: A Sequence of Essays on the Fundamental Questions of Philosophy. Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1984. 187 pp.

"The Self and its World in Bradley and Husserl." In The Philosophy of F. H. Bradley, ed. A. Manser and G. Stock. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), pp. 285-302.

"Santayana and Panpsychism." Bulletin of the Santayana Society 2 (1984): 1-8.

"Non-Human Rights: An Idealist Perspective." Inquiry 27.4 (December 1984): 439-461.

"George Santayana." In American Philosophy, ed. Marcus G. Singer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 115-133.

"Utilitarianism and Idealism: A ‘Rapprochement’." Philosophy 60 (October 1985): 447-464.

"Philosophers and Antivivisectionism." Alternatives to Laboratory Animals 13.2 (December 1985): 99-106.

"Persuasiveness of High Probability Values – Reply." Reply to R. D. Marsh. Alternatives to Laboratory Animals 14 (1986): 299-300.

"Philosophy and Common Sense." Revue Internationale de Philosophie 40(1986): 195-206.

The Rational Foundations of Ethics. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987. x + 283 pp.

"Are there Intrinsic Values in Nature?" Journal for Applied Philosophy 4.1 (March 1987): pp. 21-28. Reprinted in Applied Philosophy: Morals and Metaphysics in Contemporary Debate, eds. Brenda Almond and Donald Hill (London and New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 37-44.

On the Significance of Spinoza’s Determinism. The 1988 annual lecture of the Vereniging Het Spinozahuis. Medelingen vanwege het Spinozahuis, 58. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1988. 16 pp.

"Les Regles Morales de L’Experimentation Animale." In Symposium Spéciale Pour La Securité et le Progrèes de la Recherche Biomédicale (Strasbourg, 1988), pp. 34-61.

"Utilitarianism." In An Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, ed. George H. R. Parkinson (London: Routledge, 1988), pp. 590-612.

"Schopenhauer and Bergson on Laughter." Comparative Criticism 10 (1988): 39-65.

"A Philosophical Journey to India." Edinburgh Philosophy Journal (1988).

"Do Animals have Rights?" Synapse, Edinburgh Medical School Journal (Summer 1987): pp. 19-23.

"Ethical Considerations on Animal Experimentation." Alternatives to Laboratory Animals 14.4 (June 1987): 307-311.

"Personal and Impersonal Identity." Mind 97.1 (January 1988): 29-49.

"Intrinsic Connectedness." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 88 (1988): 129-145.

"Utilitarianism and Respect for Human Life." Utilitas 1.1 (May 1989): 1-21

"Personal and Impersonal Identity: A Reply to Oderberg." Mind 98.4 (October 1989): 605-610.

"The Ethics of Animal Use in Biomedicine." In The Importance of Animal Experimentation for Safety and Biomedical Research, ed. S. Garratini and D. W. van Bekkum (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990), pp. 17-28. Translated as "L’Etica in Gabbia" in Sapere 95.6 (June 1992): pp 9-16.

"A. J. Ayer: An Appreciation of His Philosophy." Utilitas 2.1 (May 1990): pp. 2-11.

"Do Animals Have Rights?" Pamphlet published by The St. Andrew Animal Fund. 1990. 5 pp.

"The Ethics of Animal Experimentation." Pamphlet published by Advocates for Animals. 1990. 5 pp.

"The Satanic Novel: A Philosophical Dialogue on Blasphemy and Censorship." Inquiry 33.4 (December 1990): 377-400.

"Hartshorne On the Past." In The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne, ed. Lewis E. Hahn (La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1991), pp. 397-414.

"Whitehead und Santayana." In Die Gifford Lectures und ihre Deutung: Materialen zu Whitehead’s Prozess und Realitat, eds. Michael Hampe and Helmut Maassen (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1991), pp. 121-141. The English version was later published as "Whitehead and Santayana," Process Studies 28.1-2 (Spring-Summer 1999): 43-55.

Articles in Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, 2 vols., ed. H. Burkhardt and B. Smith. T. L. S. Sprigge, collaborating editor. Munch: Philosophia Verlag, 1991. Articles: The Absolute; Idealism/Realism; William James; James M. E. McTaggart; Monism/Pluralism; Panpsychism; Pantheism; Internal Relations; Josiah Royce; George Santayana; Schopenhauer; Spinoza.

"Some Recent Positions in Environmental Philosophy Examined." Inquiry 34.l (March 1991): 107-128.

"The Greatest Happiness Principle." Utilitas 3.1 (May 1991): 38-51.

"William James 1960-1990." British Society for the History of Philosophy Newsletter no. 6 (Spring 1991): 14-29.

"Ayer On Other Minds." In The Philosophy of A. J. Ayer, ed. Lewis E. Hahn (La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1992), pp. 577-595.

"Fundamentalism and International Law." In International Law and Armed Conflict, ed. A. G. D. Bradney (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1992), pp. 103-108.

"Refined and Crass Supernaturalism." In Philosophy, Religion and the Spiritual Life, ed. Michael McGhee (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 105-125.

Articles in Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. L. C. Becker (New York: Garland Publishing, 1992). Articles: Idealist Ethics; Santayana.

"The Unreality of Time." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 92 (1992): 1-19.

Religion Without the Supernatural: Spinoza and Santayana. Lecture delivered at the Spinoza Lyceum in Amsterdam for the Vereniging Het Spinozahuis. Medelingen vanwege het Spinozahuis, 69. Delft: Eburon, 1993. 26 pp.

"Is Dennett a Disillusioned Zimbo?" Inquiry 36.1-2 (March 1993): 33-57.

James and Bradley: American Truth and British Reality. Chicago: Open Court, 1993. xiv + 630 pp.

"Spinoza on God and Nature." The Edinburgh Star (Journal of the Edinburgh Jewish Community) no. 15 (May 1993): 18-22.

"Animal Experimentation in Biomedical Research: A Critique." In Principles of Health Care Ethics, ed. Raanan Gillon (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1994), pp. 1053-1066.

"Bradley." Chapter 15 of Routledge History of Philosophy, vol. 7: The Nineteenth Century, ed. C. L. Ten (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 437-458.

"Consciousness." Synthese 98.1 (January 1994): 73-93.

"Idealism contra Idealism: The Conceptual Idealism of Nicholas Rescher." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54.2 (June 1994): 408-414.

Articles in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Articles: Objectivism (Ethical); Panpsychism.

Articles in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). Articles: Ayer, A. J.; Bradley, F. H.; Broad, C. D.; Butler, Joseph; Butler, Samuel; Spinoza; James, William; Ross, W. D.; Santayana, George; Schopenhauer, Arthur; Relations in metaphysics; Tough-mindedness; Verification Principle; Will to Believe. The articles on Spinoza, Schopenhauer, and William James were reprinted in The Philosophers: Introducing Great Western Thinkers, ed. Ted Honderich (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).

Article in Dictionary of Theology and Society, eds. Paul A. B. Clarke and Andrew Linzey (London: Routledge, 1995). Article: Teleological Ethics.

"Bradley and Christianity." Bradley Studies Volume 1, Number 1. Spring 1995, pp. 69-85.

"Guidizio e verità nel pensiero di. F. H. Bradley." In I problemi della pedagogia 41.2-3 (March-June 1995): 275-305.

"Idealism, Humanism and the Environment." In Current Issues in Idealism, ed. Paul Coates and Daniel D. Hutto (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1996), pp. 267-302.

"Absolute Idealism." Philosophical Writings 2 (May 1996): 82-97.

"Orientations." Philosophical Writings 2 (May 1996): 98-100.

"A Reply to Joseph Bernstein." Journal of Medical Ethics 22.5 (October 1996): 302-303.

"Commentary on ‘Minds, Memes, and Multiples’." Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 3.1 (March 1996): 31-36.

"Bird on Sprigge on Bird: A Reply." Bradley Studies 2.2 (Autumn 1996): 117-128.

"Respect for the Non-Human." In The Philosophy of the Environment, ed. Timothy Chappell (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 117-134.

Article in Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Thomas Mautner (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997). Article: Santayana.

"Kerr-Lawson on Truth and Santayana." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 33.1 (Winter 1997): 113-130.

"Spinoza and Indexicals." Inquiry 40.1 (March 1997): 3-22.

"Pantheism." Monist 80.2 (April 1997): 191-217.

"The Absolute Idealism of Josiah Royce." The Philosophers’ Magazine no. 1 (Winter 1997): 32-33.

"Bradley’s Doctrine of the Absolute." In Appearance versus Reality: New Essays on Bradley’s Metaphysics, ed. Guy Stock (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. 193-217.

Articles in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig (London: Routledge, 1998). Articles: The Absolute; Idealism; Panpsychism.

"Consciousness: A Panpsychist’s View." The Philosophers’ Magazine no. 2 (Spring 1998): 42-45.

"Is Spinozism a Religion?" Studia Spinozana 11 (1995): 137-162.

"James, Aboutness and His British Critics." In The Cambridge Companion to William James, ed. Ruth Anna Putnam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 124-144.

"The God of the Philosophers." Studies in World Christianity 4.2 (1998): 149-172.

"Has Speculative Metaphysics a Future?" Monist 81.4 (October 1998): 513-533.

"The Relation between Jeremy Bentham’s Psychological and his Ethical Hedonism." In The Philosophical Age Almanac, vol. 9: The Science of Morality: J. Bentham and Russia (St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg State University, 1999), pp. 19-43.

"Freedom is Necessity." The Philosophers’ Magazine no. 6 (Spring 1999): 46-50.

"Dreyfus and Spinoza on Things-in-Themselves." Inquiry 42 (1999): 115-124.

"The Relation between Jeremy Bentham’s Psychological, and his Ethical, Hedonism." Utilitas 11.3 (November 1999): 296-319.

"Is Consciousness Mysterious?" Anthropology and Philosophy 3.2 (1999): 5-19.

"James’s Divided Self." British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (1999): 145-155.

Metaphysics: The Classic Readings, ed. David E. Cooper. T. L. S. Sprigge, Advisory Editor. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.

"Is Pity the Basis of Ethics? Nietzche versus Schopenhauer." In The Basis of Ethics, ed. William Sweet (Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette University Press, 2000), pp. 103-125.

"Review of Margaret Gullan-Whur, Within Reason: A Life of Spinoza; and Steven Nadler, Spinoza: A Life." International Philosophical Quarterly pp. 91-97.

"The Absolute Idealism of Josiah Royce." In Anglo-American Idealism, 1865-1927, ed. W. J. Mander (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000), pp. 141-162.

"Is the Esse of Intrinsic Value Percipi? Pleasure, Pain and Value." In Philosophy, the Good, the True and the Beautiful, ed. Anthony O’Hear (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 119-140.

"The World of Description and the World of Acquaintance." In Beyond Conflict and Reduction: Between Philosophy, Science and Religion, ed. William Desmond, John Steffen and Koen Decoster (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2001), pp. 9-30.

Articles in Encyclopedia of Ethics, 2nd ed, eds. L. C. Becker and C. B. Becker (New York: Garland, 2001). Articles: Ayer; Idealist Ethics; Organic Unities; Naturalistic Fallacy; Santayana.

"Review of W. J. Mander and C. A. Keene, eds., Collected Works of F. H. Bradley, vol. 4: Selected Correspondence, 1872-1904." Bradley Studies 7.1 (Spring 2001): 78-100.

"The Mind of Spinoza’s God." Iyyun: Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 50 (July 2001).

"A. J. Ayer." In A Companion to Analytic Philosophy, eds. David Sosa and Al Martinich (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001).

"Spinoza and the Motives of Right Action: Some Remarks on Spinoza’s Ethics." In Spinoza by 2000: The Jerusalem Conferences, vol. 4: Spinoza’s Ethics, ed. Yirmiyahu Yovel (Leiden: E. J. Brill, forthcoming).

"Idealism." In Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, ed. Richard Gale (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 219-241

  

Conference Presentations

Timothy Sprigge has given papers and lectures in many British universities and in the USA, Canada, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Austria. Topics include the Golden Age of American Philosophy, William James, Josiah Royce, George Santayana, F.H. Bradley, Bernard Bosanquet, Spinoza, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche,  idealism, animal rights and animal experimentation. He has been on four trips to India to lecture and to participate in the Anglo-British philosophical "Convivia" (meetings of British and Indian philosophers).