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| Preface | |
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| Introduction to The Contemporary Voyage | |
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| The Twentieth-Century Cultural Context: Science, Language, and Experience | |
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| Living in Kant's Shadow | |
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| Philosophy: Piecemeal Analysis or Grasping the Big Picture? | |
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| The Role of Science in Philosophy | |
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| The Role of Language and Experience in Philosophy | |
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| Pragmatism: The Unity of Thought and Action | |
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| The Origins of Pragmatism | |
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| Charles Sanders Peirce | |
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| The Obscure Founder of a Famous Philosophy | |
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| The Nature of Inquiry | |
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| The Theory of Meaning | |
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| Truth and Reality | |
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| Fallibilism | |
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| William James | |
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| From Physician to Philosopher | |
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| James and Peirce | |
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| The Cash Value of Truth | |
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| The Subjective Justification of Beliefs | |
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| Freedom and Determinism | |
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| The Will to Believe | |
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| John Dewey | |
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| The Ambassador-at-Large of Pragmatism | |
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| Dewey's Task | |
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| Influences on Dewey's Thought | |
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| Instrumentalism | |
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| The Concept of Truth | |
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| Ethics as Problem Solving | |
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| Education, Social Philosophy, and Religion | |
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| The Significance of Pragmatism | |
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| Process Philosophy: Bergson and Whitehead | |
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| Henri Bergson | |
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| The Philosopher of Creativity | |
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| Two Ways of Knowing: Intellect and Intuition | |
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| Metaphysics: Mechanism Versus Vitalism | |
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| Time and Duration | |
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| The Experience of Being a Self | |
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| Evolution in a New Light | |
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| The Two Sources of Morality and Religion | |
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| Bergson's Influence | |
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| Alfred North Whitehead | |
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| Whitehead's Life: From Mathematics to Metaphysics | |
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| Whitehead's Task: Finding the Ultimate Categories | |
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| The Method and Possibility of Metaphysics | |
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| Metaphysics and the Imagination | |
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| Metaphysics and Language | |
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| The Fallacies of Scientific Materialism | |
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| Metaphysics: The Philosophy of Organic Process | |
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| Events as the Primary Realities | |
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| Feelings: How Events Are Related to One Another | |
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| Creativity: The Ultimate Category | |
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| The Realm of Possibilities: Eternal Objects | |
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| Enduring Objects: Societies of Actual Entities | |
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| The Mind--Body Problem | |
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| Whitehead's Natural Theology | |
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| God and the Harmony of the World | |
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| A God in Process | |
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| God's Influence on the World | |
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| The Problem of Evil | |
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| The Impact of Process Philosophy | |
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| Analytic Philosophy and the Linguistic Turn | |
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| The Turn to Language and Analysis | |
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| Bertrand Russell | |
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| Russell's Life: Mathematician, Philosopher, Reformer | |
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| Background: The Revolt Against Hegelianism | |
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| British Idealism | |
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| G. E. Moore | |
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| Russell's Task: Developing a Logically Perfect Language | |
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| Russell's Logical Atomism | |
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| How Language Connects with the World | |
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| Russell's Theory of Logical Constructions | |
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| Logical Positivism | |
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| The Verifiability Principle | |
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| The Demise of Metaphysics and Theology | |
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| The Status of Ethics | |
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| Problems with Logical Positivism | |
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| Ludwig Wittgenstein | |
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| Wittgenstein's Life: From Engineer to Philosopher | |
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| The Early Wittgenstein: From Logic to Mysticism | |
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| The Task of the Tractatus | |
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| The Picture Theory of Language | |
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| Wittgenstein's Mysticism | |
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| The Later Wittgenstein: The Turn to Ordinary Language | |
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| Language-Games | |
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| Meaning and Use | |
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| Forms of Life | |
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| Ordinary Language Versus Philosophical Language | |
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| Philosophy as Therapy | |
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| The Impact of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy | |
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| Conceptual Analysis | |
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| Gilbert Ryle | |
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| Category Mistakes | |
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| Descartes's Myth | |
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| Ryle's Analysis of Mental Terms | |
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| John Austin | |
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| Austin's Philosophical Method | |
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| Austin's Analysis of Excuses | |
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| How to Do Things with Words | |
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| The Significance of Analytic Philosophy | |
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| Phenomenology and Existentialism | |
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| Edmund Husserl | |
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| The Life of a Perpetual Beginner | |
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| Husserl's Task: Developing Philosophy into a Rigorous Science | |
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| Phenomenology as a Science of Experience | |
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| The Phenomenological Method | |
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| The Thesis of the Natural Standpoint | |
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| Bracketing the World | |
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| Consciousness as Intentionality | |
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| The Discovery of Essences | |
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| Transcendental Phenomenology | |
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| The Shift to the Life-World | |
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| Husserl's Significance | |
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| The Influence of Phenomenology | |
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| The Transition to Existential Phenomenology | |
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| Martin Heidegger | |
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| Heidegger's Life | |
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| Heidegger's Task: Understanding the Meaning of Being | |
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| Heidegger's Radical Conception of Phenomenology | |
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| Our Existence as a Window to Being | |
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| Being-in-the-World | |
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| Being-in | |
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| The World | |
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| Concern | |
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| Modes of Dasein | |
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| Facticity and Thrownness | |
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| Being-Ahead-of-Myself | |
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| Fallenness | |
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| The Fundamental Division: Authentic Versus Inauthentic Existence | |
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| Anxiety | |
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| Being-Towards-Death | |
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| Conscience | |
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| The Call of Being | |
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| The Question of Truth | |
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| The Problem of Language | |
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| The Task of the Poet | |
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| Letting-Be | |
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| Rediscovering the Holy | |
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| Heidegger's Significance | |
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| Jean-Paul Sartre | |
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| A Life Lived Amidst Books | |
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| Sartre's Task: A Human-Centered Ontology | |
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| Two Kinds of Reality: Objects and Persons | |
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| An Empty Universe | |
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| Existence Precedes Essence | |
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| Condemned to Freedom | |
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| Facticity | |
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| The Paradox of Human Existence | |
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| Bad Faith Versus Authenticity | |
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| Alienation and Other People | |
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| Optimism in the Midst of Alienation | |
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| Sartre's Turn to Marxism | |
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| The Significance of Existentialism | |
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| Recent Issues in Philosophy | |
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| Rethinking Empiricism | |
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| W. V. O. Quine | |
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| Rethinking Philosophy: Postmodernism | |
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| Michel Foucault | |
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| Jacques Derrida | |
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| Richard Rorty | |
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| Rethinking Philosophy: Feminism | |
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| Feminist Approaches to Epistemology | |
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| Feminist Approaches to Ethics | |
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| Philosophy in a Global Village | |
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| New Issues in Philosophy of Mind | |
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| New Issues in Ethics | |
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| A Parting Word | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |