Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition
1. Atomism and its Ideological Implications
2. Geometrodynamics: A Monistic Metaphysic
3. System and Substance: Alternative Principles of Individuation
4. Value in Nature and Meaning in Life.
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Freya Mathews is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Philosophy at Latrobe University, Australia. Her books include The Ecological Self (1991), Ecology and Democracy (editor, 1996), For Love of Matter: a Contemporary Panpsychism (2003), Journey to the Source of the Merri (2003), Reinhabiting Reality: towards a Recovery of Culture (2005), and Ardea: a philosophical novella (2015). In addition to her research activities she manages a private biodiversity reserve in northern Victoria. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
'Freya writes beautifully ... [She] illuminates the relationship between physics and metaphysics, and between knowledge and faith ... if one wanted a clear articulation of some aspects of Spinoza's notion of substance and Einstein's cosmology, here it is.' - Habitat
'This is the book for which serious students of "deep" ecology have been waiting ...her treatment is outstandingly lucid, highly original and tightly argued.' - Times Higher Education Supplement
'It should be read by everyone interested in environmental ethics and will be of interest to many others.' - Australasian Journal of Philosophy
