Brady Bowman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University, and a consulting member of the executive committee of the Hegel Society of America. His recent publications include Sense Certainty: On the Systematic Pre-History of a Problem in German Idealism (2003).

• Introduction. 'A completely altered view of logic'; 1. The Hegelian concept, absolute negativity, and the transformation of philosophical critique; 2. Hegel's complex relationship to 'pre-Kantian' metaphysics; 3. Hegelian skepticism and the 'idealism of the finite'; 4. Skeptical implications for the foundations of natural science; 5. The methodology of finite cognition and the ideal of mathematical rigor; 6. 'Die Sache Selbst' - absolute negativity and Hegel's speculative logic of content; 7. Absolute negation and the history of logic.

Brady Bowman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University, and a consulting member of the executive committee of the Hegel Society of America. His recent publications include Sense Certainty: On the Systematic Pre-History of a Problem in German Idealism (2003).

• Introduction. 'A completely altered view of logic'; 1. The Hegelian concept, absolute negativity, and the transformation of philosophical critique; 2. Hegel's complex relationship to 'pre-Kantian' metaphysics; 3. Hegelian skepticism and the 'idealism of the finite'; 4. Skeptical implications for the foundations of natural science; 5. The methodology of finite cognition and the ideal of mathematical rigor; 6. 'Die Sache Selbst' - absolute negativity and Hegel's speculative logic of content; 7. Absolute negation and the history of logic.

Brady Bowman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University, and a consulting member of the executive committee of the Hegel Society of America. His recent publications include Sense Certainty: On the Systematic Pre-History of a Problem in German Idealism (2003).

• Introduction. 'A completely altered view of logic'; 1. The Hegelian concept, absolute negativity, and the transformation of philosophical critique; 2. Hegel's complex relationship to 'pre-Kantian' metaphysics; 3. Hegelian skepticism and the 'idealism of the finite'; 4. Skeptical implications for the foundations of natural science; 5. The methodology of finite cognition and the ideal of mathematical rigor; 6. 'Die Sache Selbst' - absolute negativity and Hegel's speculative logic of content; 7. Absolute negation and the history of logic.