Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy

James Bradley was Professor of Philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1988-2012, and Head of the Department from 2003 until his death in 2012.
Sean J. McGrath is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and a Member of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of The Philosophical Foundations of the Late Schelling: The Turn to the Positive (EUP, 2021), Thinking Nature. An Essay in Negative Ecology (EUP, 2019), The Dark Ground of Spirit: Schelling and the Unconscious(Routledge, 2012), Heidegger. A Very Critical Introduction (William B. Eerdmans, 2008) and The Early Heidegger and Medieval Philosophy (Catholic University of America Press, 2006). He is editor of The Palgrave Macmillan Handbook to Schelling (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2020), Rethinking German Idealism (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016) and A Companion to Heidegger's Phenomenology of Religious Life (Rodopi, 2010).

Preface; Creative Order: James Bradley's Speculative Metaphysics, Peter Harris; Acknowledgments; Introduction: James Bradley's Path to the Trinity, Sean J. McGrath; 1. F. H. Bradley's Metaphysics of Feeling and its Place in the History of Philosophy; 2. Whitehead, Heidegger and the Paradoxes of the New; 3. From Presence to Process: Bradley and Whitehead; 4. The Speculative Generalization of the Function: A Key to Whitehead; 5. Triads, Trinities, and Rationality; 6. The Triune Event: Event Ontology, Reason, and Love; 7. What is Existence?; 8. Beyond Hermeneutics: Peirce's Semiology as a Trinitarian Metaphysics of Communication; 9. A Key to Collingwood's Metaphysics of Absolute Presuppositions: The Trinitarian Creed; 10. Philosophy and Trinity; Postscript: My Friend James Bradley, Helmut Maassen.