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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 | |