Conceiving Nature after Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel

Richard Dien Winfield is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia, USA, where he has been teaching since 1982. He is President of the Society for Systematic Philosophy and past President of both the Hegel Society of America and the Metaphysical Society of America. He is the author of 19 previous books.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Presuppositions of Ancient and Modern Conceptions of Nature.- Chapter 2: How and Where to Begin Conceiving Nature: Three Fundamental Options.- Chapter 3:  Space-Time and Matter.- Chapter 4: Matter and Motion.- Chapter 5: From Relative to Absolute Mechanics.- Chapter 6: Physical Process and Light.- Chapter 7: The Physical States of Matter.- Chapter 8:  The Physics of Particular Individuality.- Chapter 9: From Thermodynamics to Electromagnetism.- Chapter 10:  From Electricity to Chemistry.