Title The Metaphysical Society (1869-1880) : intellectual life in mid-Victorian England / edited by Catherine Marshall, Bernie Lightman, and Richard England

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction : the metaphysical society in context / Catherine Marshall, Bernard Lightman, Richard England -- The personalization of intellectual combat : James Fitzjames Stephen and the metaphysical society / Bruce Kinzer -- The editors of the metaphysical society, or disseminating the ideas of the metaphysicians / Catherine Marshall -- Liberalism and the metaphysical society / Andrew Vincent -- 'The cross-examination of the physiologist' : T.H. Huxley and the resurrection / Gowan Dawson -- Cause, nature, and the limits of language : Martineau and Maurice on the philosophical necessity of theism / Richard England -- Expertise in the miracles debate / Anne DeWitt -- Hodgson, Clifford, and the unseen universe / W.J. Mander -- Evolution, ethics, and the metaphysical society, 1869-1875 / Ian Hesketh -- Between intuition and empiricism : William Benjamin Carpenter on man, mind, and moral responsibility / Piers J. Hale -- Intuitionism, religious belief, and proof in the papers of the metaphysical society / William Sweet -- Catholics and the metaphysical basis of science / Bernard Lightman Summary The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles with a view to 'collect, arrange, and diffuse Knowledge (whether objective or subjective) of mental and moral phenomena.' The Society was a private dining and debate club that gathered together a latter-day clerisy. Building on the tradition of the Cambridge Apostles, they elected talented members from across the Victorian intellectual spectrum: Bishops, one Cardinal, philosophers, men of science, literary figures, and politicians. The Society included in its 62 members prominent figures such as T.H. Huxley, William Gladstone, Walter Bagehot, Henry Edward Manning, John Ruskin, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. This title moves beyond Alan Willard Brown's 1947 pioneering study of the Metaphysical Society by offering a more detailed analysis of its inner dynamics and its larger impact outside the dining room at the Grosvenor Hotel Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Metaphysical Society (Great Britain) Learned institutions and societies -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Learned institutions and societies Intellectual life Metaphysics Philosophy, English Philosophy, Modern SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Marshall, Catherine, 1973- editor. Lightman, Bernard V., 1950- editor. England, Richard, editor ISBN 9780191881596 0191881597 9780192585523 0192585525 9780192585516 0192585517

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