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Cover -- Copyright and Licence -- TITLE PAGE -- CONTENTS -- Dedication -- A Note on the Author -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Life and Times -- Chapter 2. Intellectual Background -- 1. Presocratic Philosophers -- 2. The Sophists -- Chapter 3. The Dialogues -- 1. Chronology of the Dialogues -- 2. Documenting the Limitations of Writing -- 3. The Neoplatonic Curriculum -- Chapter 4. Other Platonic Productions -- 1. Spuria -- 2. Dubia -- 3. Letters and Epistles -- 4. The "Unwritten Doctrines" -- Chapter 5: The Forms -- 1. Form(al) Introduction -- 2. Knowledge as Recollection -- 3. Truth and Opinion -- 4. The "Good-Beyond-Being" -- Chapter 6: God and the Soul -- 1. God -- 2. Soul -- Select Bibliography -- Humanities Insights.

Schelling came of age during the pivotal and exciting years at the end of the eighteenth century, as Kant's philosophy was being incorporated into the German academic world. Distinguishing himself from other thinkers of this period, in addition to delving into the new Kantian philosophy, Schelling engaged in an intense study of Plato's dialogues and was immersed in a Neoplatonic intellectual culture. Throughout the first decade of his adult life, from 1792-1802, Schelling was a mystical Platonist. Attention to these aspects of Schelling's early philosophical development illuminates his fundamental commitments.

Mathematical explanation -- What is naturalism? -- Perception, practice, and ideal agents: Kitcher's naturalism -- Just metaphor?: Lakoff's language -- Seeing with the mind's eye: the Platonist alternative -- Semi-naturalists and reluctant realists -- A life of its own?: Maddy and mathematical autonomy