Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Note on the text viii
Abbreviations ix
Introduction 1
I Ancient idealism
1 Parmenides and the birth of ancient idealism 10
2 Plato and Neoplatonism 19
II Idealism and early modern philosophy
3 Phenomenalism and idealism I: Descartes and Malebranche 34
4 Phenomenalism and idealism II: Lelbniz and Berkeley 59
III German Idealism
5 Immanuel Kant: cognition, freedom and teleology 89
6 Fichte and the system of freedom 116
7 Idealist philosophy of nature;F.W.J Schelling 129
8 Hegel and Hegelianism: mind, nature and logic 144
IV British idealism
9 British absolute idealism: from Green to Bradley 159
10 Personal idealism: from Ward to McTaggart 175
11 Naturalist idealism: Bernard Bosanquet 190
12 Criticisms and persistent misconceptions of idealism 201
13 Actual occasions and eternal objects: the process metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead 210
v Contemporary idealisms
14 Self-organization: the idea in late-twentieth-century science 223
15 Contemporary phoilosophical idealism 256
Notes 299
Bibliography 312
Index 327