Preface

I   The Crisis of Philosophy

A. Autonomous Science

B. From Classical to Historical Consciousness

C. The Matrix of Cognitive Meaning—An Orienting Map

D. Pure Mathematics and the New Logic

E. Foundational Inquiry

F. Philosophy Naturalized

G. Psychologism and its Critics

II  The Primacy of Logic—A Case Study in Foundational Inquiry

A. The Logician's Perspective

B. The Locus of Epistemic Invariance

C. The Specter of Psychologism

D. Principles of Philosophical Analysis

E. The Limits of Empiricism

F. A Common Stock of Thoughts

G. Privacy, Objectivity, and Realism

H. The Failure to Discern Alternatives

III The Genesis of Husserl's Phenomenology—From Descriptive Psychology to Transcendental Idealism

A. Philosophy in Search of Itself

B. Dual Influences on the Early Husserl

C. The Refutation of Psychologism

D. The Autonomy of Pure Logic

E. The Clarification of Pure Logic

F. The Identification and Suspension of the Natural Attitude

IV Wittgenstein's Linguistic Turns

A. The Linguistic Turn

B. Logic as the Essence of Philosophy

C. Wittgenstein's Theory of Signification

D. Tautologies and Contradictions, Their Unique Status

E. The Nature of Philosophy

F. The Tractatus as an Ethical Deed

G. From Meaning to Use

H. The Crystalline Sphere

I. Mathematics Forms a Network of Norms

J. Philosophy as Captive and Escape from Captivity

V  The New Way of Words

A. Pure Semiotic and the Formal Mode of Speech

B. Philosophy as Logical Syntax

C. The Pure Theory of Empirically Meaningful Languages

D. Two Species of Psychologism

E. Naturalism without Psychologism

F. Linguistic Pluralism and Scientific Realism

G. The Linguistic Turn and the Philosophy of Language

VI The End of Epistemology

A. The Crack in Tradition

B. Platonic Imagery and Aristotelian Principles

C. The New Way of Ideas

D. Kant's Transcendental Turn

E. A New Concept of Secular Reason

F. Quine's Holistic Empiricism

G. Groundless Belief

H. From Epistemology to Hermeneutics

I. After-thoughts

VII The Need for Cognitive Integration

A. In Search of Common Ground

B. The Priority of the Intentional Subject

C. Personal Appropriation

D. The Limits of Behaviorism

E. The Risk of Psychologism

F. Transcendental Method

G. The Centrality of Insight

H. Realms of Meaning and Heuristic Structures

I. Critical Realism: Epistemic Objectivity and the Knowledge of Being

VIII Philosophical and Cultural Conflict

A. A History of Conflict

B. Dialectical Principles and Strategy

C. Cognitional Theory—Positions and Counter Positions

D. A Defense of Critical Realism

E. The Critical Appropriation of Tradition

F. The Love of Wisdom

Notes

Index