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Introduction | |
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The motive and method of rational inquiry | |
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Early recognition of a 'practice of reason' | |
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Rationality in the Nyayasutra | |
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Rationality and the ends of life | |
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Perception | |
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Mind, attention and the soul | |
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Rationality and extrapolation | |
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Rationality and debate | |
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Reason, scripture and testimony | |
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Reason's checks and balances | |
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Rationality, emptiness and the objective view | |
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Thought and reality | |
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Emptiness and the objective view | |
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Rationality in Madhyamaka | |
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On causation | |
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The impossibility of proof | |
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A new paradox of motion | |
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Self-refutation | |
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The rational basis of metaphysics | |
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Order in nature | |
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The categorial hierarchy | |
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The structure of the world | |
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The taxonomy of natural kinds | |
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Absence as a type of entity | |
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Higher-order absence | |
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Navya-Nyaya logic | |
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Number | |
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Reduction, exclusion and rational reconstruction | |
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How to practice poverty in metaphysics | |
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A skeletal ontology | |
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Marking and similarity | |
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The role of language in conceptual construction | |
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The exclusion theory of meaning | |
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Sentence meaning | |
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Conditions on rational extrapolation | |
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Reasoning from specifics | |
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Are reason-target relations law-like? | |
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The problem of grounding | |
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Rationality, harmony and perspective | |
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A rationality of reconciliation | |
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The many-sided nature of things | |
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Disagreement defused | |
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The epistemology of perspective | |
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The logic of assertion | |
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Assertion and the unassertible | |
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The mark of a good reason | |
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Integration and complete knowledge | |
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Reason in equilibrium | |
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Reason and the management of doubt | |
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The burden of proof | |
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Criteria for rational rejection | |
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Supposition and pretence | |
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A new doxastic ascent | |
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Epistemic equilibrium | |
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Notes | |
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Texts | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |