Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Notes and Reflections on Justus Buchler
Sidney Gelber
Part One: Critical and Systematic Overview
Introduction to Part One
Toward a Radical Naturalism
Sidney Gelber
Buchler's Metaphysics
Richard J. Bernstein
Nature, Power and Prospect: Justus Buchler''s System of Philosophy
Sidney Gelber and Kathleen Wallace
Part Two: General Ontology
Introduction to Part Two
Substitutes for Substance
Beth J. Singer
The Concept of Identity in Justus Buchler and Mahayana Buddhism
Marjorie Cantor Miller
The Nature of Categorical Theory
Abraham Edel
Possibility: Three Recent Ontologies
Phil Weiss
Ordinal Possibility: A Metaphysical Concept
Kathleen Wallace
Weiss/Wallace Discussion: Possibility and Metaphysics
Weiss, Possibility: Temperament and Argument
Wallace: Skeptical Openness
Ordinality and Materialism
John Ryder
Part Three: Systematic Extensions and Applications
Introduction to Part Three
Natural Obligation, Natural Appropriation
Matthew Lipman
Relativism and Metaphysics: On Justus Buchler and Richard Rorty
Lawrence E. Cahoone
The Assertive, the Active, and the Exhibitive
I. A. Richards
Reading Poems with Buchler
Roland Garrett
Reference, Interpretation, and Articulation: Rethinking Meaning in the Arts
Armen Marsoobian
Exhibitive Judgment and Freud: Toward a New Interpretation of Dreams
Ann-Mari Wallen Wachter
Buchler's Conception of Community
James Campbell
Buchler's Ordinal Metaphysics and Process Theology
Peter H. Hare and John Ryder
Ordinality and the Divine Natures
Robert S. Corrington
Contributors
Bibliography of Secondary Works on Justus Buchler
Name Index
Subject Index