Petrified Intelligence

Alison Stone is Lecturer in Philosophy at the Institute for Environment, Philosophy, and Public Policy at Lancaster University in England.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: The Problem of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature Abbreviations 1. A Priori Knowledge in Hegel's Philosophy of Nature Textual Ambiguities in the Philosophy of Nature How Cogent is Strong A Priorism? How Cogent is Weak A Priorism? Metaphysical Disputes in the Interpretation of the Philosophy of Nature The Fecundity of the Strong A Priori Reading 2. The Development of Nature: Overcoming the Division between Matter and Thought Consciousness/Nature Sensuous Consciousness/Material Externality Perception/Bodies Understanding/Physical Qualities Life Hegel's Metaphysical Theory of Nature 3. The Rationality of Nature Hegel's Rationalist Conception of Nature Rationalist and Scientific Conceptions of Nature Teleology and Modern Science Science, A Priori Reasoning, and the Rationality of Nature Nature as Petrified Intelligence 4. Two Defenses of Hegel's Metaphysics of Nature The Limits of Empirical Science Hegel's Argument from Explanatory Power Hegel's Argument from Systematic Derivation From Logic to Nature? 5. Sensibility and the Elements Bildung and the Articulation of Sensibility The Elements in Sensibility The Physical Elements in Nature Rationality and Dynamism in Elemental Nature Evaluating Hegel's Phenomenological Argument 6. Ethical Implications of Hegel's Theory of Nature Ethical Complexity in the Philosophy of Nature Practical Reason in the World The Goodness of Nature Sensibility and the Intrinsic Value of Nature The Morality of Transforming Nature How Consistent is Hegel's Account of Nature's Ethical Status? Assessment of Hegel's Ethical Argument Conclusion: Hegel's Project of a Philosophy of Nature Notes Works Cited Index