Chapter One: Introduction .- Chapter Two: The Gifford-driven genesis and subliminal stylistic construction of Metaphysics as a guide to morals.- Chapter Three: Unity and art in a mood of scepticism (MGM Chapter 1).- Chapter Four: Murdoch's question of the work of art: the dialogue between Western and Japanese conceptions of unity (MGM Chapters 1 & 8).- Chapter Five: Fact and value (MGM Chapter 2).- Chapter Six: Schopenhauer and the mystical solution of the riddle (MGM Chapter 3).- Chapter Seven: Metaphysics as a guide to morals: The debate between literature and philosophy.- Chapter Eight: Disciplines of attention: Iris Murdoch on consciousness, criticism, and thought (MGM Chapters 6-8).- Chapter Nine: Iris Murdoch as educator.- Chapter Ten: 'I think I disagree': Murdoch on Wittgenstein and inner life (MGM Chapter 17).- Chapter Eleven: 'We are fantasising imaginative animals' (MGM Chapter 11).-Chapter Twelve: The metaphysics of morals and politics (MGM Chapter 12).- Chapter Thirteen: Iris Murdoch's ontological argument (MGM Chapter 13).- Chapter Fourteen: Vision and encounter in moral thinking (MGM Chapter 15).- Chapter Fifteen: The urge to write: Of Murdoch on Plato's Demiurge.- Chapter Sixteen: Fields of force: Murdoch on axioms, duties, and Eros (MGM Chapter 17).- Chapter Seventeen: Which void? (MGM Chapter 18).