The failures of philosophy : a historical essay

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = xi
• Introduction = 1
• PART I. THE RISE AND FALL OF PHILOSOPHY IN ANTIQUITY = 23
• Chapter 1 The Emergence of Philosophy = 25
• Coming to Terms with the World = 28
• A Presocratic Genealogy = 33
• The Transition to Philosophy = 39
• Outwitting Opponents vs Intellectual Morality = 47
• The Metaphysics of Morals = 50
• Moral Complexity = 53
• Chapter 2 Metaphysics as a Form of Understanding = 59
• Explanation by Essential Properties = 62
• Logic as a Route to Understanding = 68
• Epistemology and Morality = 71
• Chapter 3 Philosophy's Loss of Autonomy = 79
• The Good Life = 81
• The Undisturbed Life = 88
• The Vagaries of Platonism = 92
• The Christian Assimilation of Philosophy = 99
• PART II. PHILOSOPHY RE-PURPOSED AS THE ULTIMATE ARBITER = 109
• Chapter 4 The Creation of an Autonomous Role for Philosophy = 111
• Philosophy as a Tool of Theology = 112
• The Revival of Aristotle = 120
• The Role of Metaphysics = 123
• Losing Control : Renaissance Naturalism = 126
• Regaining Control : The Abandonment of Aristotle = 129
• The Persona of the New Natural Philosopher = 132
• Chapter 5 From Natural Philosophy to Epistemology = 139
• Reconfiguring Knowledge = 141
• Optics and Representationalism = 150
• Knowledge of the World = 162
• Does Natural Philosophy Replace Sense Perception? = 168
• Chapter 6 Reason versus Sensibility = 173
• Contact with the World = 175
• Moral Diversity and Moral Complexity = 186
• Beyond Philosophy? = 198
• PART III. THE DECLINE OF PHILOSOPHY AND ITS RE-PURPOSING AS METASCIENCE = 201
• Chapter 7 The Retreat from Philosophy = 203
• The Perils of Metaphysics = 204
• Medicine of the Mind = 217
• Philosophy and the Shaping of Character = 225
• The Collapse of the Standing of Philosophy = 227
• Chapter 8 The Search for a Theory of Everything = 231
• Philosophy as a Theory of Everything = 237
• All or Nothing = 247
• Science as a Theory of Everything = 251
• The Quantification of Morality = 255
• Chapter 9 Science Assimilates Philosophy = 261
• Philosophy as a Metatheory of Science = 262
• The Logical Structure of the World = 266
• Rethinking the Nature of Philosophy = 277
• Conclusion = 283
• Notes = 289
• Index = 297