Mark Sinclair is Lecturer in Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, and works on the history of modern French and German philosophy in relation to issues in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of mind. He is the author of Being Inclined: Félix Ravaisson's Philosophy of Habit (Oxford), Bergson (Routledge), and Heidegger, Aristotle and the Work of Art (Palgrave), and is a co-editor of the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy.

• Editor's introduction


• I: History of philosophy prior to the nineteenth century


• II: Victor Cousin and the eclectic school


• III: Lamennais' metaphysics and theology


• IV: Socialism: Saint-Simon, Fourier, Proudhon


• V: Socialist philosophy: Leroux and Reynaud


• VI: Iatromechanism and phrenology: Broussais and Gall


• VII: Comte's positivism


• VIII: Positivism in Britain


• IX: Comte's later philosophy


• X: Littré's positivist philosophy


• XI: The philosophy of Taine


• XII: Renan and Philosophy


• XIII: Renouvier's neo-criticism


• XIV: The philosophy of Vacherot


• XV: Claude Bernard's Physiology


• XVI: Philosophical theology: Gratry


• XVII: Philosophical theology: Saisset, Simon et Caro


• XVIII: Philosophical theology: ontologism


• XIX: De Strada's metaphysics


• XX: Magy on physics and metaphysics


• XXI: Physics and philosophy: de Rémusat and Martin


• XXII: Psychology: habit, memory and the association of ideas


• XXIII: Animism, vitalism, organicism


• XXIV: Old and new materialisms: on Paul Janet


• XXV: Organicism and Animism


• XXVI: Neurology


• XXVII: Instinct


• XXVIII: Sleep


• XXIX: Madness


• XXX: Genius and creativity


• XXXI: Language and physiognomy


• XXXXII: Probability and philosophy: Cournot


• XXXIII: Epistemology: analysis and synthesis


• XXXIV: Moral Philosophy


• XXXV: Aesthetics


• XXXVI: Summary and manifesto for a new spiritualist philosophy


• Notes

Félix Ravaisson's French Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century is one of the most influential texts of modern French thought. He argues that myriad voices in nineteenth century French thinking were forming a chorus that was evolving into a more concrete form of spiritualist philosophy while incorporating recent developments in the life-sciences.