9 5 Tools of Historical Schools and Philosophers 5.1 Aphorism, fragment, remark 5.2 Categories and specific differences 5.3 Elenchus and aporia 5.4 Hegel’s master/slave dialectic 5.5 Hume’s fork 5.6 Indirect discourse 5.7 Leibniz’s law of identity 5.8 Ockham’s razor 5.9 Phenomenological method(s) 5.10 Signs and signifiers 5.11 Transcendental argument
10 6 Tools for Radical Critique 6.1 Class critique 6.2 Différance, deconstruction, and the critique of presence 6.3 Empiricist critique of metaphysics 6.4 Feminist and gender critiques 6.5 Foucaultian critique of power 6.6 Heideggerian critique of metaphysics 6.7 Lacanian critique 6.8 Critiques of naturalism 6.9 Nietzschean critique of Christian–Platonic culture 6.10 Pragmatist critique 6.11 Sartrean critique of ‘bad faith’
11 7 Tools at the Limit 7.1 Basic beliefs 7.2 Gödel and incompleteness 7.3 Hermeneutic circle 7.4 Philosophy and/as art 7.5 Mystical experience and revelation 7.6 Paradoxes 7.7 Possibility and impossibility 7.8 Primitives 7.9 Self‐evident truths 7.10 Scepticism 7.11 Underdetermination and incommensurability
12 Index
Guide
1 Cover
2 Table of Contents
Pages
1 iii
2 iv
3 v
4 vi
5 vii
6 xiii
7 xv
8 xvi
9 xvii
10 xviii
11 xix
12 xx
13 1
14 2
15 3
16 4