Acknowledgments .............................................. xvii
Part I. Epistemic Friction
1 Epistemic Friction and Freedom ............................... 3
1.1 Epistemic Friction and its Roots in Kant, Wittgenstein,
and McDowell ............................................ 4
1.2 The Present Conception of Epistemic Friction ............ 8
1.3 Epistemic Freedom ...................................... 12
1.4 Between Friction and Freedom ........................... 16
2 A Sustainable Epistemic Methodology ......................... 17
2.1 Epistemic Friction and the Illusion of
Foundationalism ........................................ 17
2.2 From Foundationalism to Foundational Holism ............ 20
Part II. A Dynamic Model of Knowledge
3 Quine's Model of Knowledge: An Inner Tension ................ 39
3.1 The Initial Promise of Quine's Model ................... 39
3.2 An Inner Problem in Quine's Model ...................... 40
3.3 Objections and Responses ............................... 43
3.4 Dummett's Solution to the Inner Problem ................ 48
3.5 A New Solution ......................................... 56
4 Dynamic Model—Two Dimensions of Change ...................... 62
4.1 Contextual Dynamic ..................................... 62
4.2 Temporal-Developmental Dynamic ......................... 68
5 Reality, Intellect, Realism ................................. 73
5.1 The Basic Epistemic Situation .......................... 75
5.2 Reality: Beyond Platonism and Nominalism ............... 77
5.3 Intellect: Beyond Apriorism and Empiricism ............. 84
5.4 Robust yet Non-Rigid Realism ........................... 91
6 Differences with Quine ..................................... 100
6.1 Contrasts with Quine's Model .......................... 100
6.2 Immunity to Criticisms of Quine's Model ............... 112
Part III. The Structure of Truth
7 A Substantivist Theory of Truth ............................ 131
7.1 A Substantivist (as Opposed to Deflationist)
Methodology ........................................... 131
7.2 The Unity and Disunity of Truth: Challenges and
Strategies ............................................ 134
8 Basic Principles of Truth .................................. 162
8.1 The Fundamental Principle of Truth .................... 162
8.2 Ramifications for Skepticism .......................... 175
8.3 The "Manifold" Correspondence Principle ............... 186
8.4 Application to Mathematics (A New Theory of
Mathematical Truth) ................................... 192
8.5 The Logicality Principle (Tarski's Theory of Truth
in Perspective) ....................................... 218
Part IV. An Outline of a Foundation for Logic
9 The Foundational Problem of Logic .......................... 239
9.1 The Foundational Problem of Logic as
a Methodological Problem .............................. 239
9.2 Analysis of the Problem and Alleged Remedies .......... 243
9.3 Solution: The Foundational-Holistic Methodology ....... 250
10 An Outine of a Foundation for Logic ........................ 253
10.1 What is Logic's Task in our System of Knowledge? ...... 254
10.2 Is Logic Grounded in the Mind or in the World? ........ 255
10.3 Why does Logic Require a Grounding in the World? ...... 260
10.4 What Specific Features of the World is Logic
Grounded in? - The Formality Thesis ................... 271
10.5 From Formality to Generality, Necessity, Topic
Neutrality, Strong Normativity, Quasi-Apriority, and
More .................................................. 288
10.6 Source of the Normativity of Logic, Tarski's
Problem, Truth and Logical Truth, and Other Issues .... 294
10.7 Questions and Objections: Logical Constants,
Invariance, Generality, and Necessity ................. 302
10.8 Logic and Mathematics: An Alternative to Logicism ..... 320
10.9 On the Possibility of Error and Revision in Logic ..... 327
10.10 The Scope of Logic ................................... 331
Conclusion: Toward Freedom ................................. 339
References .................................................... 343
Index ......................................................... 359
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