Idealist from the Paleozoic?

 

Richard Carrier on the war path...again! This time against an unrepentant Idealist philosopher, Bernardo Kastrup. Carrier defends physicalism. That he considers Idealism to be more or less cray-cray is obvious from the following paragraph: 

>>>There is a reason 52% of all philosophers are physicalists and that this becomes 68% of all philosophers when you exclude delusional theists. But Idealism is still the least likely alternative. There are theisms more likely; and those are pretty damn unlikely. 

>>>Yet nontheist alternatives do even better still—nonetheist nonnaturalisms (like Taoism) outperform theism; and nonphysicalist naturalisms (like emergent qualia dualism) outperform those. So Idealism is right up there with “Faerie Abductions” or “Lizard People Secretly Rule the Earth.”

Still, it´s an interesting essay, to be sure.  

Bernardo Kastrup´s attempt to bootstrap idealism