This volume contains thirty new essays by leading experts on British philosophy in the nineteenth century, and provides a comprehensive and unrivalled resource for advanced students and scholars. As well as the most celebrated figures, such as Mill, Spencer, Sidgwick, and Bradley, the Handbook discusses many other less well-known names and debates from the period, such as Whewell, Shadworth Hodgson, and Martineau.
The Handbook contains six parts: Part I examines logic and scientific method from Whately through to the advent of modern formal logic; Part II discusses some of the century's most famous metaphysical systems such as those of the Scottish Common Sense school, J. F. Ferrier and F. H. Bradley; Part III covers science and philosophy, paying particular attention to positivism and the impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory; Part IV explores ethical, social, and political thought, including the lesser known themes of feminism and British Socialism; Part V concerns religious philosophy; and Part VI examines the changes which took place in the practice of philosophy itself during the nineteenth-century. Prefaced by an introductory article which contextualises and relates the various themes and controversies of the century, each chapter provides an overview of the topic under consideration and surveys of the state of current research, while at the same time offering new ideas and suggestions for future interpretation.

Notes on Contributors ix

1. Introduction W. J. MANDER 1

PART I LOGIC AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD

2. Early Nineteenth-Century Logic JAMES W. ALLARD 25

3. Mill's System of Logic DAVID GODDEN 44

4. Whewell's Philosophy of Science STEFFEN DUCHEYNE 71

5. Some British Logicians JEREMY GRAY 89

6. Idealist Logic PHILLIP FERREIRA 111

PART II METAPHYSICS

7. Hamilton, Scottish Common Sense, and the Philosophy of the Conditioned GORDON GRAHAM 135

8. J. F. Ferrier's Institutes of Metaphysic JENNY KEEFE 154

9. The Philosophy of Shadworth Hodgson W. J. MANDER 173

10. Bradley's Metaphysics PIERFRANCESCO BASILE 189

PART III SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY

11. Evolution and Religion JOHN HEDLEY BROOKE 211

12. Evolution and Ethics in Victorian Britain MICHAEL RUSE 233

13. Herbert Spencer JOHN OFFER 257

14. The Evolutionary Turn in Positivism: G. H. Lewes and Leslie Stephen MARK FRANCIS 285

15. British Idealism and Evolution DAVID BOUCHER 306

16. The Emergence of Psychology GARY HATFIELD 324

PART IV ETHICAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL THOUGHT

17. Jeremy Bentham and James Mill PHILIP SCHOFIELD 347

18. John Stuart Mill's Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy DALE E. MILLER 365

19. British Feminist Thought BARBARA CAINE 383

20. Karl Marx and British Socialism DAVID LEOPOLD 402

21. The Ethics of British Idealism: Bradley, Green, and Bosanquet ANDREW VINCENT 423

22. The Political Thought of the British Idealists AVITAL SIMHONY 440

23. Henry Sidgwick and the Irrationality of the Universe BART SCHULTZ 461

PART V RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY

24. The Philosophy of James Martineau RALPH WALLER 485

25. John Henry Newman ANTHONY KENNY 510

26. The Philosophy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge JAMES VIGUS 520

27. Scottish Religious Philosophy, 1850-1900 ALAN P. F. SELL 541

28. British Idealist Philosophy of Religion WILLIAM SWEET 560

PART VI THE PRACTICE OF PHILOSOPHY

29. Poetry and the Philosophical Imagination LESLIE ARMOUR 587

30. The Professionalization of British Philosophy STUART BROWN 619

Index 641

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.

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