Truth: a guide

PREFACE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: FAITH, BELIEF AND REASON 1. Clifford's Duties 2. Fiction and MythJames 4. Kinds of Animation CHAPTER 2: MAN THE MEASURE 1. Turning the Tables: the Recoil Argument 2. Modern Judo 3. The Variation of Subjectives 4. The Moving Bull's-eye 5. Doing it Ourselves CHAPTER 3: ISHMAEL'S PROBLEM AND THE DELIGHTS OF KEEPING QUIET 1. Who Tell the Tale? 2. A Gestalt Switch 3. You Tell Me, or Down with Pilate 4. Moral Relativism 5. Man the Measurer 6. Summary CHAPTER 4: NIETZCHE: THE ARCH DEBUNKER 1. Facts or Interpretations? 2. Twilight of the Idols 3. Perspectivism 4. Adequate Words 5. Heraclitus and the Flux 6. The Darwinian Element CHAPTER 5: THE POSSIBILITY OF PHILOSOPHY 1. Getting Puzzled 2. Four Responses 3. Eliminativism 4. Realism 5. Deconstructing the Issue 6. The Constructivist Corner 7. The Example of Wittgenstein CHAPTER 6: OBSERVATION AND TRUTH: FROM LOCKE TO RORTY 1. Paradise Lost 2. First Impressions 3. Holism 4. Davidson's Mantle 5. Rorty's Talking World 6. Keeping our Feet on the Ground 7. Interlude: Law, Tennis, and the Coffee-house 8. A Political Message CHAPTER 7: REALISM AS SCIENCE REALISM ABOUT SCIENCE 1. No Miracles 2. Science Red in Tooth and Claw 3. Explaining from Within 4. Animation and Belief Again 5. Underdetermination CHAPTER 8: HISTORIANS AND OTHERS 1. Conceptual Schemes 2. Mind Reading 3. Mirroring 4. Infirmities 5. Collectives and their Histories 6. Peace Breaks Out NOTES INDEX