Acknowledgments
Introduction
One. The Spiral of Reflection
1. Maps, Plans, and Interpretations
2. What is Missing in a Phenomenology of Experience
3. Thought is Speculative
4. The Maps of Practice as Extended and Tested Within Science
5. The Beginnings of Metaphysics in Practice and Science
6. Assigning Responsibility for a Comprehensive Account of Categorical
Form
7. A Theory of Categorical Form
8. Confirming that a Theory of Categorical Form Applies to Human
Beings
9. Nature's Conditions
10. Being
11. Conclusion
Two. The Intuitionist Alternative
1. The Intuitionist Notion of Reality and Inquiry
2. "Empiricism" as a Kind of Intuitionism
3. The Socialization and Autonomy of Intuiting Mind
Three. Hypothesis
1. Interpretation
2. Hypothesis
3. Why We Need to Think Hypothetically
4. The Metaphysical Uses of Hypothesis
5. Hypothesis Used as Description and Explanations
6. The Testing of Metaphysical Hypothesis
7. Objections
8. Conclusion
Four. Sufficient Reason
1. Completeness
2. Being as a Bounded Whole
3. The Principle of Sufficient Reason, and Its Reformulation
4. Proving That the Principle of Sufficient Reason is Valid
5. A Conflict Between Metaphysics and Science
6. An Error to be Averted
7. Conclusion
Five. Ontology
1. Thoughts or Sentences Representing Possible, Sometimes Actual,
States of Affairs
2. A Two-part Ontology
3. Actuality and Possibility
4. Alternative Ways of Accounting for Possibility
5. Some Problematic Possibilities
6. Conclusion
Six. Hypothesizing Mind
1. Inferring From Mind's Activities to Its Character
2. Vulnerability and Security
3. Sources of Our Vulnerability
4. Plan-directed Activity as a Security-enhancing Response to
Vulnerability
5. Submission and Control, Dependence and Self-sufficiency
6. Provocations to Thought and Action
7. Constraining Values and Ideals
8. Cognitive-affective Balance
9. Selfhood
10. The Faculties Required for Making and Testing Hypotheses
11. What Metaphysics Contributes to Our Well-being
12. Conclusion
Seven. A Forced Choice
1. Criteria for Deciding Between Intuition and Hypothesis
2. Why Intuitionism Survives
3. Alternative Methods
Eight. Facts Obscured by Values
Notes
Index