This is the first full assessment of British philosophy in the 19th century. Specially written essays by leading experts explore the work of the key thinkers of this remarkable period in intellectual history, covering logic and scientific method, metaphysics, religion, positivism, the impact of Darwin, and ethical, social, and political theory.

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.

• 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