The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century

by Mander, W. J.

• ISBN13: 9780199594474
• ISBN10: 0199594473
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-04-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

W. J. Mander was educated at University College London and Corpus Christi College Oxford. After holding a Junior Research Fellowship at St Anne's College, he became a Fellow of Harris Manchester College. Although he is also interested in Early Modern Philosophy, his main area of research is in Nineteenth Century British Philosophy.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, W. J. Mander
Logic and scientific method
2. Early Nineteenth Century Logic, James W. Allard
3. Mill's System of Logic, David M. Godden
4. Whewell's Philosophy of Science, Steffen Ducheyne
5. Some British Logicians, Jeremy Gray
6. Idealist Logic, Phillip Ferreira
Metaphysics
7. Hamilton, Scottish Common Sense, and the Philosophy of the Conditioned, Gordon Graham
8. J. F. Ferrier's Institutes of Metaphysic, Jenny Keefe
9. The Philosophy of Shadworth Hodgson, W. J. Mander
10. Bradley's Metaphysics, Pierfrancesco Basile
Science and Philosophy
11. Evolution and Religion, John Hedley Brooke
12. Evolution and Ethics in Victorian Britain, Michael Ruse
13. Herbert Spencer, John Offer
14. The Evolutionary Turn in Positivism: G.H. Lewes and Leslie Stephen, Mark Francis
15. British Idealism and Evolution, David Boucher
16. The Emergence of Psychology, Gary Hatfield
Ethical, social, and political thought
17. Jeremy Bentham and James Mill, Philip Schofield
18. John Stuart Mill's Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy, Dale E. Miller
19. British Feminist Thought, Barbara Caine
20. Karl Marx and British Socialism, David Leopold
21. The Ethics of British Idealism; Bradley, Green and Bosanquet, Andrew Vincent
22. The Political Thought of the British Idealists, Avital Simhony
23. Henry Sidgwick and the Irrationality of the Universe, Bart Schultz
Religious philosophy
24. The Philosophy of James Martineau, Ralph Waller
25. John Henry Newman, Anthony Kenny
26. The Philosophy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James Vigus
27. Scottish Religious Philosophy 1850-1900, Alan P. F. Sell
28. British Idealist Philosophy of Religion, William Sweet
The Practice of Philosophy
29. Poetry and the Philosophical Imagination, Leslie Armour
30. The Professionalization of British Philosophy, Stuart Brown