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Bernardo Kastrup

Summary

Dutch philosopher and author (born 1973) who developed analytic idealism — the view that reality is fundamentally mental and that matter is an extrinsic appearance of universal mind.

Core Contribution

Analytic idealism: a rigorous, scientifically-informed defense of ontological idealism against physicalism and dualism, arguing that consciousness is the only ontological primitive.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • analytic idealism
  • consciousness
  • metaphysics
  • philosophy of mind
  • ontology

Notable Works & Achievements

Why Materialism Is Baloney

Brief Peeks Beyond

The Idea of the World

Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics

Decoding Jung's Metaphysics

Meaning in Absurdity

Historical Influences

Arthur Schopenhauer Carl Jung Hegel David Chalmers Henri Bergson

Intellectual Lineage

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Contemporaries & Peers

Ian McGilchrist John Vervaeke Rupert Sheldrake

Minds Influenced

contemporary idealist philosophersconsciousness researchers post-materialist science community

Intellectual Posterity

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