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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Interpreting Marvels: The Irish Augustine | |
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| Enter, the Irish Augustine | |
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| The theology of the Flood | |
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| The theology of marvels | |
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| The theology of angelic ministry | |
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| The Irish Augustine and the African Doctor | |
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| The Philosophy of Creation | |
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| The five modes of interpretation | |
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| The four conceptions of nature Nature, theophany, and pantheism | |
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| The gendered and the pristine body | |
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| The return to God Eriugena and the cult of the Free Spirit | |
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| Scholars or thinkers: A postscript on Peter of Ireland and Richard Fitzralph | |
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| Nature Observed | |
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| New Learning | |
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| Christian virtuoso Touching the spring of the air | |
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| A new departure ' A piece of green-wood burning' | |
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| Boyle against the elements A thinking gentleman | |
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| William Molyneux, new learner and patriot Mr Molyneux to Mr Locke | |
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| An Anglo-Irish correspondence Against the self-image of the age | |
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| Paris Aristotelian from Ireland | |
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| John Toland and the Ascendancy of Reason | |
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| Reason, revelation, and meaning Tyranny, superstition, and the politics of pantheism 'As in a glass darkly' | |
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| Peter Browne and the argument from analogy Other partisans of mystery | |
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| God, good, and privation | |
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| The theodicy | |
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| The Philosophical animism | |
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| Wonderfully Mending the World | |
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| Seeing things: Berkeley's theory of vision Seeing (and not seeing) things | |
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| Berkeley's philosophy of perception | |
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| The visible language of god | |
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| The converting imagination: Swift against the moderns Modernism as madness | |
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| The moral of the | |
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| Tale Abolishing Christianity | |
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| Swift against the free thinkers An unsentimental journey | |
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| Gulliver and the perversion of reason | |
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| Against the Selfish Philosophers | |
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| Francis Hutcheson, Edmund Burke, and James Usher | |
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| Hutcheson and the stratagems of self-love | |
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| The pleasures of morality Vice and cruelty explained | |
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| The politics of happiness and the pleasures of civil union | |
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| Reflection and reaction | |
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| the life and thought of Edmund Burke | |
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| The taste of fear | |
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| Burke's aesthetics of sublimity From the sublime to the political | |
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| Burke and the philosophy of custom 'Shadowy similitudes' | |
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| James Usher on the limits of language 'A benevolent conspiracy' | |
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| Ireland and the thought of revolution | |
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| Peripheral Visions (1): Irish Thought in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Daniel O'Connell and Benthamism Anti-Union, anti-Credo, anti-Malthus | |
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| The subversive thought of George Ensor Producing happiness | |
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| The radical utilitarianism of William Thompson Happiness and suffrage | |
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| The feminist utilitarianism of Anna Doyle Wheeler The power of circumstance | |
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| The holistic philosophy of Henry MacCormac | |
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| Peripheral Visions (2): Irish Thought in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| English theory, Irish facts | |
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| Cairnes and the turn of political economy Religion and the science of genesis | |
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| Darwin in Ireland | |
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| scientific evangelist Three non-Darwinian evolutionists | |
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| Religion, rivalry, & progress | |
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| The social Darwinism of Benjamin Kidd Ethics and the primal nebula | |
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| Frances Power Cobbe - Varieties of Irish idealism | |
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| From William Rowan Hamilton to Oscar Wilde | |
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| Between Extremities: Irish Thought in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Between self and anti-self | |
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| The visionary idealism | |
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| The dreams of reason | |
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| on the unconscious origins of thought Against method | |
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| Drury on the imprisoned mind 'Unutterable particularities' | |
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| Iris Murdoch on the ethics of attention Being in the middle | |
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| William Desmond on tragedy, 'idiocy', and intimacy 'A vision of being free' | |
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| Philip Pettit on mind, society, and the res publica | |