A World for Us aims to refute physical realism and establish in its
place a form of idealism. Physical realism, in the sense in which
John Foster understands it, takes the physical world to be
something whose existence is both logically independent of the
human mind and metaphysically fundamental. Foster identifies a
number of problems for this realist view, but his main objection is
that it does not accord the world the requisite empirical
immanence. The form of idealism that he tries to establish in its
place rejects the realist view in both its aspects. It takes the
world to be something whose existence is ultimately constituted by
facts about human sensory experience, or by some richer complex of
non-physical facts in which such experiential facts centrally
feature. Foster calls this phenomenalistic idealism. He tries to
establish a specific version of such phenomenalistic idealism, in
which the experiential facts that centrally feature in the
constitutive creation of the world are ones that concern the
organization of human sensory experience. The basic idea of this
version is that, in the context of certain other constitutively
relevant factors, this sensory organization creates the physical
world by disposing things to appear systematically world-wise at
the human empirical viewpoint. Chief among these other relevant
factors is the role of God as the one who is responsible for the
sensory organization and ordains the system of appearance it
yields. It is this that gives the idealistically created world its
objectivity and allows it to qualify as a real world.
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