Contents
Introduction: Why Idealism Matters
Part 1: Ancient Idealism
1. Parmenides and the Birth of Ancient Idealism
2. Plato and Neoplatonism
Part 2: Early Modern Idealism
3. Phenomenalism and Idealism I: Descartes and Malebranche
4. Phenomenalism and Idealism II: Leibniz and Berkeley
Part 3: German Idealism
5. Immanuel Kant: Cognition, Freedom and Teleology
6. Fichte and the System of Freedom
7. Philosophy of Nature and the Birth of Absolute Idealism: Schelling
8. Hegel and Hegelianism: Mind, Nature and Logic
Part 4: British Idealism
9. British Absolute Idealism: From Green to Bradley
10. Personal Idealism: From Ward to McTaggart
11. Naturalist Idealism: Bernard Bosanquet
12. Criticisms and Persistent Misconceptions of Idealism
13. Actual Occasions and Eternal Objects: The Process Metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead.
Part 5: Contemporary Idealisms
14. Autopoiesis: Idealist Biology I
15. Autonomous Agents: Idealist Biology II
16. Contemporary Philosophical Idealisms