Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Human Nature -- The Mirror's The Reflections and the Clockwork Behind Our Smiles: Human Nature, Agency, Spirit, and Mechanism -- What Is Human Nature? -- Metaphysics and Naturalism -- Metaphysics and its Critics -- Metaphysics as First Science -- The Concept of Naturalism: Some Complications -- Naturalism and the Normative -- History of Philosophy -- Science and the History of Analytic Philosophy -- Contingency in Early Modern Philosophy -- Charles W. Hendel and Hume: A Review and Reconsideration -- The Singularity of the Scientific Revolution: Fred Wilson's Defence of the Early Modern Achievement in Philosophy and the Sciences -- Enlightenment, the Philosophers, and Race: Some Reconsiderations -- Kant, Christianity, and a Kingdom of Ends -- Homeric Topics -- Philosophical Reflections on Homer -- Tradition, History, and Oral Memory in Early Greek Epic -- The Other Odysseus, the False Troy, and Oral Tradition -- Bibliography -- Index.