Preface and acknowledgments
1. The stereotypical picture of the Russell/Bradley dispute
The stereotypical picture outlined
The sources and pervasiveness of the stereotype
Displacing the stereotype
2. Finding a way into Bradley's metaphysics
The foundations of Bradley's thought
Intellectual satisfaction
The sceptical principle, mark 1
The attack on predication
The attack on external relations
The sceptical principle, marks 2 and 3
The attack on internal relations
Contingency, sufficient reason and circularity
An initial contrast between Bradley and Russell on judgment
Russell's 1903 binary relation theory of judgment
The origins of the multiple relation theory of judgment
Bradley and the coherence theory of truth
Bradley on coherence and correspondence
Russell and the correspondence theory of truth
The derivation of Bradley's metaphysical theory of truth
The nature of Bradley's metaphysical theory of truth
The availability of the identity theory of truth
Russell and the identity theory of truth
Russell, the multiple relation theory, and correspondence
The transparency thesis, the theory of descriptions, and the usual story
The consequences of replacing the usual story
Grammar, descriptions and analysis
Subject-predicate grammar and the status of relations
Subject-predicate grammar : substance and attribute
The significance of relations
Logic, metaphysics and internal relations
Interpreting the doctrine of internal relations
The development of Bradley's views on relations
Russell, internality and unreality
Bradley's arguments for the unreality of relations and their terms
The decline of monistic idealism