Preface | p. XIII |
A Legitimization of Philosophy | p. xiii |
Prologue | p. XXIX |
On Finding a Suitable Label | p. xxix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Freeing Wittgenstein's Prisoner | p. 1 |
The Cult of Linguisticism | p. 10 |
p. 39 | |
The Nature of Metaphysics | p. 39 |
What is Metaphysics? | p. 41 |
A Typology of Metaphysics | p. 55 |
The Metaphysics of the Mystic | p. 55 |
Theistic Metaphysics | |
Theistic, Religious Metaphysics | |
Non-Theistic, Doctrinal, Religious Metaphysics | |
Non-Theistic, Non-Doctrinal, Religious Metaphysics | |
Rationalist Metaphysics | p. 59 |
The Metaphysics of Appearance and Reality | p. 60 |
The Metaphysics of Transcendental Conditions | p. 61 |
The Metaphysics of Experience | p. 62 |
Revisionary and Descriptive Metaphysics | p. 62 |
The Metaphysics of Absolute Presuppositions | p. 63 |
Hegelian-Dialectical Metaphysics or Developmental Metaphysics | p. 64 |
The Metaphysics of Hartshorne | p. 65 |
Similarities between Hartshorne's and the Present View | p. 65 |
A Comparison between Specific Metaphysical Truth Claims in Hartshorne's and in the Present Work | p. 66 |
Categorial Contrast | p. 70 |
Degrees of Metaphysical Truth | p. 71 |
Regional Metaphysics | p. 75 |
Pedagogical Approaches to the Study of Metaphysics | p. 79 |
The History of Systems | p. 79 |
The Approach by Topics | p. 80 |
The Approach by Problematic | p. 80 |
The Approach by Perspectives | p. 81 |
Cyclical and Dialectical Progression | p. 81 |
Hermeneutics | p. 82 |
Modified Hegelianism | p. 83 |
Chinese Modified Hegelianism | p. 84 |
Metaphysical Principles and Metaphysical Insight | p. 87 |
p. 101 | |
The Nature of Knowledge | p. 101 |
The Modes of Knowledge, The Case of the Idiot Savant and How Many Angels can Dance on the Head of a Pin? | p. 103 |
Prelinguistic Knowledge | p. 103 |
The Case of the Idiot Savant | p. 106 |
Philosophical Debates | p. 110 |
Intentionality Versus Behaviorism | p. 110 |
The One and the Many | p. 112 |
Space in the Philosophy of Kant | p. 113 |
How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? | p. 115 |
Postconceptual Knowledge | p. 117 |
The Doctrine of Transcendental Reflection | p. 117 |
Space and Time | p. 121 |
Descartes' Legacy and Exorcising the Ghosts of the Cartesian and the Hermeneutic Circles | p. 127 |
Preface to the Cartesian Legacy | p. 127 |
Summary of the Cartesian Legacy | p. 135 |
Exorcising the Ghost of the Cartesian Circle | p. 136 |
Exorcising the Ghost of the Hermeneutic Circle | p. 138 |
Husserl's Red Herrings | p. 145 |
The Intentionality of Consciousness | p. 145 |
The Reality of Other Minds | p. 147 |
The Transcendental Ego | p. 147 |
The Proof of the External World | p. 149 |
The Bogeyword, 'Intuition' | p. 159 |
The Laws of the Mind and the Laws of the Universe | p. 171 |
The Distinction Between Empirical Psychology and Phenomenological Epistemology | p. 181 |
Defining the Realm of Pure Phenomenology | p. 203 |
The Logic in Phenomenology | p. 207 |
Phenomenological Truth | p. 207 |
The Forgotten Fourth | p. 217 |
Bibliography | p. 233 |
Index | p. 239 |
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