Giuseppina D'Oro explores Collingwood's work in epistemology and metaphysics, uncovering his importance beyond his better known work in philosophy of history and aesthetics. This major contribution to our understanding of one of the most important figures in history of philosophy will be essential reading for scholars of Collingwood and all students of metaphysics and the history of philosophy.

Giuseppina D'Oro is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Keele, UK.

Preface, List of abbreviations, Introduction, 1. Collingwood and the metaphysics of experience, 2. The Kantian heritage of Collingwood's descriptive metaphysics, 3. Collingwood and the realism/anti-realism debate, 4. Collingwood's anti-naturalism, 5. Collingwood's 'rehabilitation' of the ontological proof, 6. Collingwood and the radical conversion hypothesis, 7. Collingwood and the project of naturalised epistemology, 8. The Idea of History as a branch of descriptive metaphysics, 9. Collingwood's philosophy of mind and action, 10. Conclusion: Collingwood and the nature of philosophical knowledge, Notes, Bibliography, Index