A Convex Mirror

Marco Segala is Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of L'Aquila (Italy). He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Florence. He was fellow of the Humboldt-Foundation at Frankfurt am Main and of the EU programme Marie Sklodowska-Curie at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His research concerns post-Kantian philosophy focusing on Schopenhauer, history of science (1750-1950), and philosophy of music (1800-1900).

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction

Chapter 1: The Single Thought
0. 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

Chapter 2: An Early and Abiding Engagement with the Sciences
0. 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 Affaire

Chapter 3: Metaphysician and Naturforscher at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
0. 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

Chapter 4: Metaphysics of Nature in The World as Will and Representation
0. Introduction
1. The Will Between Metaphysics and Science
2. Analogy
3. Ideas and Forces
4. Stufenfolge, Teleology, and Temporality
5. Philosophy of Nature

Chapter 5: In Dialogue with Kant and Schelling
0. 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

Chapter 6: A New Season
0. 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

Chapter 7: Philosophy of the Sciences
0. 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

Chapter 8: On Will in Nature: A Philosophical Work
0. 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

Chapter 9: Grappling with the Sciences
0. 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

Chapter 10: Essences, Emergence, and Ground
0. 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