Edward Craig is Reader in Modern Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he has taught, and been a member of Churchill College, since 1966. He has held visiting professorships at Hamburg, Heidelberg, and Melbourne. He is the author of Knowledge and the State of Nature (Clarendon Press, 1990). He was the editor of the journal Ratio from 1988 to 1992, and is now Chief Editor of the ten-volume Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, to be published in 1998. In 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

rich and fascinating ... covering a host of topics from the seventeenth century to the present, with the discussion ranging from general overviews to detailed discussions of particular philosophers or issues ... comparable in its breadth and insight to Richard Rorty's Mirror of Nature, and it deserves as wide an audience.

• 1. The Mind of God ; 2. One Way to Read Hume ; 3. The Metaphysics of the Romantic Era ; 4. One Way to Read Hegel ; 5. The Works of Man ; 6. One way to Read Ourselves ; Index

Edward Craig is Reader in Modern Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he has taught, and been a member of Churchill College, since 1966. He has held visiting professorships at Hamburg, Heidelberg, and Melbourne. He is the author of Knowledge and the State of Nature (Clarendon Press, 1990). He was the editor of the journal Ratio from 1988 to 1992, and is now Chief Editor of the ten-volume Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, to be published in 1998. In 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

rich and fascinating ... covering a host of topics from the seventeenth century to the present, with the discussion ranging from general overviews to detailed discussions of particular philosophers or issues ... comparable in its breadth and insight to Richard Rorty's Mirror of Nature, and it deserves as wide an audience.

• 1. The Mind of God ; 2. One Way to Read Hume ; 3. The Metaphysics of the Romantic Era ; 4. One Way to Read Hegel ; 5. The Works of Man ; 6. One way to Read Ourselves ; Index

Edward Craig is Reader in Modern Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he has taught, and been a member of Churchill College, since 1966. He has held visiting professorships at Hamburg, Heidelberg, and Melbourne. He is the author of Knowledge and the State of Nature (Clarendon Press, 1990). He was the editor of the journal Ratio from 1988 to 1992, and is now Chief Editor of the ten-volume Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, to be published in 1998. In 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

rich and fascinating ... covering a host of topics from the seventeenth century to the present, with the discussion ranging from general overviews to detailed discussions of particular philosophers or issues ... comparable in its breadth and insight to Richard Rorty's Mirror of Nature, and it deserves as wide an audience.

• 1. The Mind of God ; 2. One Way to Read Hume ; 3. The Metaphysics of the Romantic Era ; 4. One Way to Read Hegel ; 5. The Works of Man ; 6. One way to Read Ourselves ; Index