Introduction .................................................. 1
Part I. What is Second Philosophy? .............................. 9
1. Descartes's first philosophy ................................ 11
2. Neo-Cartesian skepticism .................................... 20
3. Hume's naturalism ........................................... 37
4. Kant's transcendentalism .................................... 47
5. Carnap's rational reconstruction ............................ 65
6. Quine's naturalism .......................................... 83
7. Putnam's anti-naturalism .................................... 97
Part II. The Second Philosopher at Work ....................... 113
1. What's left to do? ......................................... 115
2. An illustration: truth and reference ....................... 119
3. Reconfiguring the debate ................................... 139
4. Disquotation ............................................... 152
5. Minimalism ................................................. 166
6. Correlation ................................................ 175
Part III. A Second Philosophy of Logic ........................ 197
1. Naturalistic options ....................................... 199
2. Kant on logic .............................................. 207
3. Undoing the Copernican revolution .......................... 225
4. The logical structure of the world ......................... 234
5. The logical structure of cognition ......................... 245
6. The status of rudimentary logic ............................ 271
7. From rudimentary to classical logic ........................ 282
8. Caveats .................................................... 299
Part IV. Second Philosophy and Mathematics .................... 303
1. Second philosophy of science ............................... 305
2. Mathematics in application ................................. 314
3. Second methodology of mathematics .......................... 344
4. Second philosophy of mathematics ........................... 361
5. Second metaphysics ......................................... 392
References .................................................... 412
Index ......................................................... 439
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