Keith R. Peterson is Lecturer in Philosophy at St. Michael's College and Champlain College.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Translator's Introduction The Primacy of the PostulateFrom Postulate to DeductionTranscendental Deductions and The Idea of NatureLogogenesis, Construction, and Potency in the Philosophy of NatureConclusionWorks Cited Translator's Note Title Page of Schelling 1799 Edition Foreword to Schelling 1799 Edition Outline of the Whole First Division I. The Unconditioned in NatureII. The Original Qualities and Actants in NatureIII. Actants and Their CombinationsIV. Inhibition and Stages of DevelopmentV. Deduction of the Dynamic Series of Stages Second Division First SystemSecond SystemThird Possible SystemConclusions Third Division I. On the Concept of ExcitabilityII. Deduction of Organic Functions from the Concept of ExcitabilityIII. The Graduated Series of Stages in NatureAppendix to Chapter IIIIV. General Theory of the Chemical ProcessV. The Theater of the Dynamic Organization of the Universe Introduction to the Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature, or, On the Concept of Speculative Physics and the Internal Organization of a System of this Science (1799) §1. What we call Philosophy of Nature is a Necessary Science in the System of Knowledge§2. Scientific Character of the Philosophy of Nature§3. Philosophy of Nature is Speculative Physics§4. On the Possibility of Speculative Physics§5. On a System of Speculative Physics in General§6. Internal Organization of the System of Speculative Physics Appendix: Scientific Authors Notes English-German Glossary German-English Glossary Page Concordance Index

Keith R. Peterson is Lecturer in Philosophy at St. Michael's College and Champlain College.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Translator's Introduction The Primacy of the PostulateFrom Postulate to DeductionTranscendental Deductions and The Idea of NatureLogogenesis, Construction, and Potency in the Philosophy of NatureConclusionWorks Cited Translator's Note Title Page of Schelling 1799 Edition Foreword to Schelling 1799 Edition Outline of the Whole First Division I. The Unconditioned in NatureII. The Original Qualities and Actants in NatureIII. Actants and Their CombinationsIV. Inhibition and Stages of DevelopmentV. Deduction of the Dynamic Series of Stages Second Division First SystemSecond SystemThird Possible SystemConclusions Third Division I. On the Concept of ExcitabilityII. Deduction of Organic Functions from the Concept of ExcitabilityIII. The Graduated Series of Stages in NatureAppendix to Chapter IIIIV. General Theory of the Chemical ProcessV. The Theater of the Dynamic Organization of the Universe Introduction to the Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature, or, On the Concept of Speculative Physics and the Internal Organization of a System of this Science (1799) §1. What we call Philosophy of Nature is a Necessary Science in the System of Knowledge§2. Scientific Character of the Philosophy of Nature§3. Philosophy of Nature is Speculative Physics§4. On the Possibility of Speculative Physics§5. On a System of Speculative Physics in General§6. Internal Organization of the System of Speculative Physics Appendix: Scientific Authors Notes English-German Glossary German-English Glossary Page Concordance Index

Keith R. Peterson is Lecturer in Philosophy at St. Michael's College and Champlain College.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Translator's Introduction The Primacy of the PostulateFrom Postulate to DeductionTranscendental Deductions and The Idea of NatureLogogenesis, Construction, and Potency in the Philosophy of NatureConclusionWorks Cited Translator's Note Title Page of Schelling 1799 Edition Foreword to Schelling 1799 Edition Outline of the Whole First Division I. The Unconditioned in NatureII. The Original Qualities and Actants in NatureIII. Actants and Their CombinationsIV. Inhibition and Stages of DevelopmentV. Deduction of the Dynamic Series of Stages Second Division First SystemSecond SystemThird Possible SystemConclusions Third Division I. On the Concept of ExcitabilityII. Deduction of Organic Functions from the Concept of ExcitabilityIII. The Graduated Series of Stages in NatureAppendix to Chapter IIIIV. General Theory of the Chemical ProcessV. The Theater of the Dynamic Organization of the Universe Introduction to the Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature, or, On the Concept of Speculative Physics and the Internal Organization of a System of this Science (1799) §1. What we call Philosophy of Nature is a Necessary Science in the System of Knowledge§2. Scientific Character of the Philosophy of Nature§3. Philosophy of Nature is Speculative Physics§4. On the Possibility of Speculative Physics§5. On a System of Speculative Physics in General§6. Internal Organization of the System of Speculative Physics Appendix: Scientific Authors Notes English-German Glossary German-English Glossary Page Concordance Index