A Convex Mirror: Schopenhauer's Philosophy and the Sciences

Cover
A Convex Mirror
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Single Thought
	Introduction
	1. Philosophy as a system
	2. What is the single thought?
	3. The unity and its parts
	4. Science and philosophy of nature in the system
	5. The Second Book of The World as Will and Representation
	6. Philosophy of nature
2. An Early and Abiding Engagement with the Sciences
	Introduction
	1. A taste for the sciences
	2. The choice of Göttingen
	3. Scientific education at Göttingen and Berlin
	4. From physiology to philosophy
	5. Berlin and the animal magnetism affair
3. Metaphysician and Naturforscher at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
	Introduction
	1. Kielmeyer, Schelling, and Naturphilosophie
	2. Will and evolution
	3. The Romantic legacy
	4. Spiritism and physiology
	5. Goethe, master and adversary
	6. Colors as specific sensations in the eye
4. Metaphysics of Nature in The World as Will and Representation
	Introduction
	1. The will between metaphysics and science
	2. Analogy
	3. Ideas and forces
	4. Stufenfolge, teleology, and temporality
	5. Philosophy of nature
5. In Dialogue with Kant and Schelling
	Introduction
	1. On Kant’s metaphysics of nature
	2. The fascination of Schelling’s Naturphilosophie
	3. Appreciation and criticism of Naturphilosophie
	4. Distinguishing science from philosophy
	5. The conundrum of the philosophy of nature
	6. Toward a philosophy of science
6. A New Season
	Introduction
	1. Great hopes, hard times
	2. A second edition of The World as Will and Representation?
	3. The Supplements and the system
	4. The rediscovery of Kant and Schelling’s ghost
	5. A new status for the sciences: professionalism and disciplines
7. Philosophy of the Sciences
	Introduction
	1. The Vorlesungen and the system
	2. Turning points
	3. Foliant § 37
	4. Philosophizing scientists
	5. Philosophizing on the sciences
	6. Physiology and philosophy
8. On Will in Nature: A Philosophical Work
	Introduction
	1. A new appreciation of On Will in Nature
	2. Confirmation and the scientists’ insight into the will
	3. Relinquishing the Ideas
	4. Will and causality
	5. The crucial role of On Will in Nature
9. Grappling with the Sciences
	Introduction
	1. The chemical syllogism
	2. A new approach to teleology
	3. Creative drives
	4. Intellect and brain, representation and reality
	5. Matter, forces, and scientific realism
10. Essences, Emergence, and Ground
	Introduction
	1. Ideas, or explaining the phenomenal world
	2. Ideas and aesthetic experience
	3. Ideas as essences
	4. Teleology as an emergent property
	5. Will and metaphysics
	6. Definitions of will
	7. Will and metaphysical grounding
Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index