Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Progress: Fact And Fiction -- Impact And Limits Of The Idea Of Progress In Antiquity -- Philosophical Commitments And Scientific Progress -- Chinese "Cyclic" View Of History Vs. Japanese "Progress" -- Political Progress: Reality Or Illusion? -- Progress And The Future -- Progress And Development In Music History -- Progress In Philosophy -- Time In The Universe -- Progress In Biological Evolution -- The Idea Of Progress In Evolutionary Biology: Philosophical Considerations -- The Idea Of Progress In Human Health -- Notes On Contributors -- Index.