Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction
Select Bibliography
Author's Preface
AN ESSAY ON METAPHYSICS (1940)
Endnotes
The Nature of Metaphysical Study (1934)
The Function of Metaphysics in Civilization (1938)
Notes for an Essay on Logic (1939)
Index

About the Author

R. G. Collingwood was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1935 to 1941.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition skilfully-edited and handsomely-produced... Nearly sixty years after its first publication An Essay on Metaphysics retains its philosophical value.'
James Connelly, British Journal for the History of Philosophy