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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 Gottingen; 3. Scientific Education at Gottingen 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 SC 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

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