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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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The Task of Philosophy:The Erotetic Nature of Philosophy: Philosophy as a Cognitive Enterprise | |
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The Need for Philosophy: Humans as Homo Quaerens | |
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Rationality is the Instrument of Philosophy | |
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Philosophy as Truth Estimation | |
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The Data of Philosophy | |
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Metaphilosophical Issues | |
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Philosophizing as an Erotetic Enterprise: The Dialectic of Question and Answer:Questions and their Presuppositions: Issues Regarding the Legitimacy of Questions | |
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Question Dynamics: Kant''s Principle of Question Propagation and the Dialectical Exfoliation of Questions | |
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Philosophy as a Venture in Erotetic Dialectic | |
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Philosophical Assessment | |
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What''s on the Agenda?:Unexamined Issues and Agenda Formation | |
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The Recent Scene.Metaphilosophy a Part of Philosophy Itself | |
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The Political Dimension: A Struggle for Ownership | |
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The Systemic Dimension | |
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Philosophical Discourse:The Narrative Dimension of Philosophy | |
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The Method of Philosophy: Truth-Estimative Conjecture.Ongoing Explanation | |
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Historical Unity of Philosophy | |
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The Data of Philosophy | |
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Interpreting Philosophical Texts:Setting the Stage: Deconstructionism | |
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Exegetical Interpretation | |
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Why Philosophical Texts Need Interpretation | |
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The Principle of Contextuality-Context Coherence as an Interpretative Standard | |
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The First Law | |
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The Second Law | |
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The Third Law | |
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The Fourth Law | |
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Rhetoric And Rational Argumentation:Rhetoric Versus Argumentation: The General Situation | |
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An Uneasy Union | |
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The Special Case of Philosophy | |
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Philosophy''s Data: The Source of Plausibility | |
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Philosophical Aporetics:The Pervasiveness of Apories | |
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Aporetic Antinomies Structure the Issues | |
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The Economic Dimension of Philosophical Inquiry:Plausibility as a Guide to Issues of Precedence and Priority | |
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Cost Effectiveness as a Salient Aspect of Rationality | |
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Unacceptable Price Argumentation in Philosophy | |
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The Impact of Distinctions:The Role of Distinctions | |
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Dialectic Development via Distinctions | |
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Developmental Dialectics | |
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Inference to the Best Explanation and its Problems:Difficulties with Inference to the Best Explanation | |
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Best Systematization as a Viable Alternative | |
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The Coherentist Criteriology of Truth as a Philosophical Method:Coherentism in Philosophy | |
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How Context Helps via Local Appropriateness | |
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Philosophical Coherentism is Self Sustaining | |
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Why Philosophizing Must Be Systematic: The Holistic Nature of Philosophy:Externalities and Negative Side Effects | |
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Systematic Interconnectedness as a Consequence of Aporetic Complexity | |
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Local Minimalism versus Global Optimalism | |
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Why Not Simply "Live With Inconsistency?" The Imperative of Cognitive Rationality | |
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The Methodological Rationale of Systematicity in Philosophy | |
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Systematization as an Instrument of Inquiry:Hierarchical Systematization: The Euclidean Model of Knowledge | |
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Systematicity and the Impetus to Coherence: The Network Model | |
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On the Advantages of a Network Model | |
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The Pivotal Role of Data for a Coherentist Truth-Criteriology | |
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Coherentism''s Exploitation of the Parameters of Systematicity | |
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Systematization as Truth Criterion: The Hegelian Inversion | |
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Developmental Dialectics and Complexity:Spencer''s Law: The Dynamics of Cognitive Complexity | |
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The Methodological Status of Simplicity-Preference: Systematicity, Economy, and the Principle of Least Effort | |
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Perennial Philosophy.Rational Dialectic in Philosophy | |
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Counterfactual Reasoning as a Philosophical Instrument:Historical Stagesetting | |
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Belief-Contravening Supposition: How Apories Arise in Hypothetical Contexts | |
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The Centrality of Precedence (Right of Way).Logic as Such Does Not Resolve Matters | |
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Reductio Ad Absurdum Argumentation.Evidential Contexts | |
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The Situation in Philosophy.An Overview.Dispensing with "Possible Worlds" | |
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Validating First Principles:First Principles | |
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Historical Postscript | |
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God''s Place in Philosophy (Non in Philosophia Recurrere est ad Deum):Two Opposed Intuitions.Theistic vs. Naturalistic Questions | |
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The Closure of the Secular Realm | |
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Internal vs. Exte | |