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

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.

This volume contains thirty new essays by leading experts on British philosophy in the nineteenth century, and provides a comprehensive and unrivalled resource for advanced students and scholars. As well as the most celebrated figures, such as Mill, Spencer, Sidgwick, and Bradley, the Handbook discusses many other less well-known names and debates from the period, such as Whewell, Shadworth Hodgson, and Martineau.
The Handbook contains six parts: Part I examines logic and scientific method from Whately through to the advent of modern formal logic; Part II discusses some of the century's most famous metaphysical systems such as those of the Scottish Common Sense school, J. F. Ferrier and F. H. Bradley; Part III covers science and philosophy, paying particular attention to positivism and the impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory; Part IV explores ethical, social, and political thought, including the lesser known themes of feminism and British Socialism; Part V concerns religious philosophy; and Part VI examines the changes which took place in the practice of philosophy itself during the nineteenth-century. Prefaced by an introductory article which contextualises and relates the various themes and controversies of the century, each chapter provides an overview of the topic under consideration and surveys of the state of current research, while at the same time offering new ideas and suggestions for future interpretation.