Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature

Stephen Houlgate is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick and is the author of Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics and Freedom, Truth and History: An Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy.

"This is the most careful and penetrating analysis of Hegel's philosophy of nature, as it flows from his Logic and what should be called his scientific method." — Oliva Blanchette, Boston College"In addition to Hegel scholars, this book will be of interest to people who are thinking about the relationship of science to nature and how we moderns should be approaching nature. The ecological revolution has returned the whole question of a philosophy of nature to the arena of theoretical discourse." — John W. Burbidge, author of Hegel on Logic and Religion

• Abbreviations IntroductionStephen Houlgate 1. The Very Idea of the Idea of Nature, or Why Hegel Is Not an IdealistWilliam Maker 2. The Logic of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: Nature, Space, and TimeEdward Halper 3. Space, Time and Matter: Conceiving Nature Without FoundationsRichard Dien Winfield 4. Hegel's Geometric TheoryLawrence S. Stepelevich 5. How to Save the Phenomena: Meaning and Reference in Hegel's Philosophy of NatureBrigitte Falkenburg 6. On Hegel's Early Critique of Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural ScienceKenneth R. Westphal 7. Hegel's Appropriation of Kant's Account of Teleology in NatureDaniel O. Dahlstrom 8. How Final Is Hegel's Rejection of Evolution?Errol E. Harris 9. Hegel's NatureDonald Phillip Verene 10. Hegel's Worm in Newton's AppleMauro Nasti De Vincentis 11. The Ontological Foundations of Hegel's Dissertation of 1801Olivier Depré 12. Framing Hypotheses: Numbers in Nature and the Logic of Measure in the Development of Hegel's SystemCinzia Ferrini Bibliography About the Contributors Index