Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-326) and index.
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Ancient idealism. Paramenidea and the birth of ancient idealism ; Plato and Neoplatonism -- Idealism and early modern philosophy. Phenomenalism and idealism I : Descartes and Malebranche ; Phenomenalism and idealism II : Leibniz and Berkeley -- German idealism. Immanuel Kant : cognition, freedom and teleology ; Fichte and the system of freedom ; Idealist philosophy of nature : F.W.J Schelling ; Hegel and Hegelianism : mind, nature and logic -- British idealism. British absolute idealism : from Green to Bradley ; Personal idealism : from Ward to McTaggart ; Naturalist idealism : Bernard Bosanquet ; Criticisms and persistent misconceptions of idealism ; Actual occasions and eternal objects : the process metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead -- Contemporary idealisms. Self-organization : the idea in late-twentieth-century science ; Contemporary philosophical idealism.