Essential Difference: Toward a Metaphysics of Emergence

Essential Difference: Toward a Metaphysics of Emergence
Contents
Introduction
	The End of Metaphysics?
	Old and New Metaphysics
	Plan of the Book
	Metaphysical vs. Epistemological “Emergence”
Chapter 1: What Is Metaphysics? Transcendental Knowledge
	Kinds of Knowledge
	Characterizing Metaphysical Knowledge
	The Possible and the Actual
Part I: The Ancient Crisis
	Chapter 2: Parmenides\' Challenge: Truth or Seeming
		The One and the Many
		Physicalist and Idealist Reductionism
		Genus and Difference
		Parmenides’ Two Ways
		Seeming and the Sophists
	Chapter 3: Plato\'s Response: The Form of Difference
		Plato’s Program
		Plato’s Parmenides
		Plato’s Sophist
		A Note on Dialectic
		Conclusion
	Chapter 4: Aristotle\'s Response: Differentiated Individuals
		Physicalist and Idealist Reductionism
		Focal Meaning (πρὸς ἔν Equivocation)
		Substance: Neither Substratum nor Genus
		Are Aggregates Substances?
		Individuation and Differentiation
		Archaic vs. Contemporary Aristotle
		Conclusion
Part II: The Modern Crisis
	Chapter 5: Hume\'s Challenge: Matters of Fact or Relations of Ideas
		Analytic and Synthetic Propositions
		Formal Necessity or Material Contingency
	Chapter 6: Kant\'s Response: Straining against Formalism
		Idealist (Logical) and Physicalist (Sensory) Formalism
		Beyond Pure Formalism?
		Analysis as “Improvement” of Form
		Synthetic A Priori Principles of Empirical Inquiry
		Teleological Judgment beyond the Limits of Formalism
		The Non-Derivability of the Actual from the Possible
		Formalism and Surrogate Content
		Essential Difference: Necessity without Universality
	Chapter 7: Hegel\'s Response: A Material Logic
		Platonic Definition
		Categories as Definitions of the Absolute
		Dialectical Inference
		Successive Definitions: Dialectic and the Logic of Correction
		The Problem of Differentiation in Hegel’s Logic
		Epistemic vs. Ontological Amplification
		Hegel’s Metaphysics of Physical Entities
		Conclusion
		Anti-Reductionism after Hegel
Part III: Toward a Metaphysics of Emergence
	Chapter 8: Physical Emergence: The Constraint Interpretation
		Actualizing Constraints
		Individuating Constraints
		Differentiating Constraints
		The Ontology of Emergence
		Are Artifacts and Aggregates Physical Entities?
		Are Atoms and Molecules Physical Entities?
		Conclusion
	Chapter 9: Life and Mind: The Autonomy of Form
		The Distinctive Challenges of a Non-Formalist Metaphysics
		Beyond Purely Physical Emergence
		The Emergence of Life
		The Emergence of Mind
		Autonomy and Dualism
Notes
Bibliography
Index