Series statement from dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ch. 1. Introduction / W.J. Mander -- Part I. Logic and scientific method -- ch. 2. Early nineteenth-century logic / James W. Allard -- ch. 3. Mill's system of logic / David Godden -- ch. 4. Whewell's philosophy of science / Steffen Ducheyne -- ch. 5. Some British logicians / Jeremy Gray -- ch. 6. Idealist logic / Phillip Ferreira -- Part II. Metaphysics -- ch. 7. Hamilton, Scottish common sense, and the philosophy of the conditioned / Gordon Graham -- ch. 8. J.F. Ferrier's institutes of metaphysic / Jenny Keefe -- ch. 9. The philosophy of Shadworth Hodgson / W.J. Mander -- ch. 10. Bradley's metaphysics / Pierfrancesco Basile -- Part III. Science and philosophy -- ch. 11. Evolution and religion / John Hedley Brooke -- ch. 12. Evolution and ethics in Victorian Britain / Michael Ruse -- ch. 13. Herbert Spencer / John Offer -- ch. 14. The evolutionary turn in positivism : G.H. Lewes and Leslie Stephen / Mark Francis -- ch. 15. British idealism and evolution / David Boucher -- ch. 16. The emergence of psychology / Gary Hatfield -- Part IV. Ethical, social, and political thought -- ch. 17. Jeremy Bentham and James Mill / Philip Schofield -- ch. 18. John Stuart Mill's moral, social, and political philosophy / Dale E. Miller -- ch. 19. British feminist thought / Barbara Caine -- ch. 20. Karl Marx and British Socialism / David Leopold -- ch. 21. The ethics of British idealism : Bradley, Green, and Bosanquet / Andrew Vincent -- ch. 22. The political thought of the British idealists / Avital Simhony -- ch. 23. Henry Sidgwick and the irrationality of the universe / Bart Schultz -- Part V. Religious philosophy -- ch. 24. The philosophy of James Martineau / Ralph Waller -- ch. 25. John Henry Newman / Anthony Kenny -- ch. 26. The philosophy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge / James Vigus -- ch. 27. Scottish religious philosophy, 1850-1900 / Alan P.F. Sell -- ch. 28. British idealist philosophy of religion / William Sweet -- Part VI. The practice of philosophy -- ch. 29. Poetry and the philosophical imagination / Leslie Armour -- ch. 30. The professionalization of British philosophy / Stuart Brown.

This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing in Britain in the nineteenth century. A team of experts provide new accounts of both major and lesser-known thinkers, and explores the diverse approaches in the period to logic and metaphysics, the passions, morality, criticism, and politics.--