Preface
Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought
David Ray Griffin
1. Why Do Epistemology?
Knowing and the Requirements of Theory
Knowing and the Variety of Life
Knowing and Basic Contrasts
Knowing and Being
Knowing and Valuing
PART ONE: DISCOVERING THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL GAP
2. Ancient Knowers
Plato and His Predecessors
Aristotle and His Successors
3. Medieval Believers
Augustine
Between Augustine and Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas
Scotus and Ockham
4. Modern Doubters
Hobbes and Descartes
Locke and Berkeley
Hume and Kant
PART TWO: COPING WITH THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL GAP
5. Reducing the Gap
Intuitions of a World
Fichte and Hegel
Comte and Mill
Mach and Ayer
Problems with Reduction
6. Webbing the Gap
The Coherentist Pedigree
F.H. Bradley
Brand Blanshard
Problems with Coherentism
7. Leaping the Gap
Søren Kierkegaard
Reflecting on Kierkegaard
C.S. Peirce and William James
Problems with the Leap
PART THREE: DECONSTRUCTING THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL GAP
8. Experiencing the World
The Postmodern Turn
Physical Continuities in Experience
Conceptual Continuities in Experience
Experience: Spectra and Bipolarities
Bipolar Experience: Some Benefits
9. Thinking the World
The Phases of Concrescence
The Path to Conceptual Thinking
Defining the True
10. Knowing the World
Practical Knowing
Observational Knowing
Theoretical Knowing
The Knowing of Beauty and the Beauty of Knowing
Works Cited
Note on Supporting Center
Index