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5. Kant: The Possibility, Scope, and Limits of Metaphysics
1. Introduction
2. Bad Metaphysics and Good Metaphysics
3. Synthetic
A Priori
Knowledge
4. How Synthetic
A Priori
Knowledge Is Possible: Transcendental Idealism
5. Good Metaphysics: The ‘Transcendental Analytic’
6. Bad Metaphysics: The ‘Transcendental Dialectic’
7. The Regulative Use of Concepts
8. Thick Sense-Making and Thin Sense-Making
9. Sense-Making That Is Neither Straightforwardly Thin nor Straightforwardly Thick
10. The Unsatisfactoriness of Kant’s Metaphysics
Appendix: Transcendental Idealism Broadly Construed
6. Fichte: Transcendentalism versus Naturalism
1. German Philosophy in the Immediate Aftermath of Kant
2. The Choice Between Transcendentalism and Naturalism
3. Fichte’s System I: The Subject’s Intuition of Itself
4. Fichte’s System II: Conditions of the Subject’s Intuition of Itself. The System’s Self-Vindication
Appendix: Shades of Fichte in Kant
7. Hegel: Transcendentalism-cum-Naturalism; or, Absolute Idealism
1. Preliminaries
2. Hegel’s Recoil from Kant’s Transcendental Idealism
3. ‘What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational’
4. Hegel’s Logic and the Absolute Idea
5. Three Concerns
6. Shades of Spinoza in Hegel?
7. Contradiction, Reason, and Understanding
8. Hegel
Contra
Kant Again. Absolute Idealism
9. The Implications for Metaphysics
Part Two The Late Modern Period I: The Analytic Tradition
8. Frege: Sense Under Scrutiny
1. What Is Frege Doing Here?
2. The Project: Arithmetic as a Branch of Logic
3. The Execution of the Project
4. Sense and
Bedeutung
5. The Admissibility of Definitions
6. The Objectivity of Sense. The Domain of Logic
7. Two Problems
(a) The Set of Sets That Do Not Belong to Themselves
(b) The Property of Being a Horse
8. The Implications for Metaphysics
9. The Early Wittgenstein: The Possibility, Scope, and Limits of Sense; or, Sense, Senselessness, and Nonsense
1. Why Two Wittgensteins?
2. Wittgenstein’s Conception of Philosophy
3. The Vision of the
Tractatus
4. Logic. Wittgenstein
Contra
Frege and Kant
5. ‘Anyone who understands me eventually recognizes my propositions as nonsensical’
6. Two Approaches to the
Tractatus
. A Rapprochement?
7. Transcendental Idealism in the
Tractatus
8. Metaphysics in the Service of Ethics
10. The Later Wittgenstein: Bringing Words Back from Their Metaphysical to Their Everyday Use
1. Wittgenstein’s Conception of Philosophy: A Reprise
2. Differences Between the Early Work and the Later Work
3. Metaphysics, Necessity, and Grammar
4. Transcendental Idealism in the Later Work?
5. Distinguishing Between the ‘Everyday’ and the ‘Metaphysical’
6. Taking Words Away from Their Everyday to a Metaphysical Use?
11. Carnap: The Elimination of Metaphysics?
1. Logical Positivism
2. Carnap’s Version of Logical Positivism. Linguistic Frameworks
3. A First (Themed) Retrospective
(a) Hume
(b) Kant
(c) Frege
(d) The Early Wittgenstein
(e) The Later Wittgenstein
4. Glances Ahead
(a) Quine
(b) Heidegger
5. The Implications for Metaphysics
(a) The Implications for Metaphysics on Carnap’s Own Conception of Metaphysics
(b) The Implications for Metaphysics on My Conception of Metaphysics
(c) Carnap on Alternative Conceptions of Metaphysics
6.
Tu Quoque
?
12. Quine: The
Ne Plus Ultra
of Naturalism
1. Introduction
2. Quine: Empiricist, Naturalist, Physicalist
(a) Quine’s Empiricism
(b) Quine’s Naturalism
(c) Quine’s Physicalism
3. Relations Between Quine’s Empiricism, Naturalism, and Physicalism
4. Some Distinctions Rejected …
5. … and a New One Introduced
6. Quinean Metaphysics I: An Overview
7. Quinean Metaphysics II: Ontology
8. Objections to Quine’s Naturalism
Appendix: Can Quine Consistently Reject the Distinctions He Rejects and Espouse the Indeterminacy/Underdetermination Distinction?
13. Lewis: Metaphysics in the Service of Philosophy
1. Analytic Philosophy in the Immediate Aftermath of Quine
2. Lewis’ Quinean Credentials; or, Lewis: Empiricist, Naturalist, Physicalist
3. Modal Realism
4. Concerns About Modal Realism. The Concerns Removed, but the Shortcomings of Lewis’ Metaphysics Thereby Revealed
14. Dummett: The Logical Basis of Metaphysics
1. In Retrospect and in Prospect
2. Realism and Anti-Realism
3. Three Replies to Dummett’s Anti-Realist Challenge
(a) First Reply
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