Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index

Introduction / Stephen Gersh & Dermot Moran -- Non-subjective idealism in Plato (Sophist 248e-249d) / Vasilis Politis -- The platonic forms as Gesetze : could Paul Natorp have been right? / John Dillon -- Platonism and its interpretations : the three paradigms and their place in the history of hermeneutics / Vittorio Hösle -- The Roman stoics on divine thinking and human knowledge / Gretchen Reydams-Schils -- The object of perception in Plotinus / Andrew Smith -- Saint Augustine and the indwelling of the ideas in God / Jean Pépin -- Spiritualis incrassatio : Eriugena's intellectualist immaterialism : is it an idealism? / Dermot Moran -- Eriugena's fourfold contemplation : idealism and arithmetic / Stephen Gersh -- Eriugena's idealist interpretation of paradise / Agnieszka Kijewska -- Immanence and transcendence : intellect and forms in al-Kindī and the Liber de causis / Peter Adamson -- The scientific background of George Berkeley's idealism / Bertil Belfrage -- The chain and the animal : idealism in Berkeley's Siris / Timo Airaksinen -- Idealism from Kant to Berkeley / Karl Ameriks -- Idealism and realism in classical German philosophy / Walter Jaeschke