Philosophical Dialectics: An Essay on Metaphilosophy

Philosophical Dialectics......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Philosophical Principles......Page 10
Principles of Informative Adequacy......Page 12
Probative Principles of Rational Cogency......Page 14
Principles of Rational Economy......Page 16
Issues of Validation......Page 19
Dealing with Objections......Page 22
Consistency and Apories......Page 26
Some Sample Apories......Page 28
On Appraising Apories......Page 30
Enter Distinctions......Page 32
Apory Resolution as Cost-Benefit Analysis......Page 33
What Distinctions Are......Page 36
How Distinctions Fail......Page 38
Misassimilation......Page 40
Historical Background......Page 44
The Role of Distinctions in Philosophy......Page 45
Philosophical Apories Tie Issues Together......Page 50
Respect Neglect......Page 54
Simplicity......Page 55
Fallacy......Page 56
The Problem......Page 60
Summative Features......Page 61
Is Existence Mereologically Summative?No—A Whole Is More Than Its Parts......Page 62
The Analytical/Constructionist Program......Page 63
Instances of the Implementation of theConstructionist Program......Page 64
Problem Number One: The Fallacy ofTermination Presumption......Page 69
Problem Number Two: The Disintegration of Simplicity and the Fallacy of Respect Neglect......Page 70
Perspectival Dissonance and Nonamalgamation......Page 71
Cognition Is Not Summative......Page 72
Review......Page 74
Externalities and Negative Side Effects......Page 75
Systematic Interconnectedness as a Consequence of Aporetic Complexity......Page 80
Philosophical Aporetics......Page 84
The Role of Distinctions......Page 87
The Structure of Dialectic......Page 90
Developmental Dialectics......Page 93
The Burden of History......Page 98
The Structure of Philosophical History......Page 101
Ignorance......Page 104
Intractable Questions about the Cognitive Future and Surd Generalities......Page 106
Insolubilia Then and Now......Page 109
Cognitive Limits......Page 111
Identifying Insolubilia......Page 113
Relating Knowledge to Ignorance......Page 115
Notes......Page 118
Bibliography......Page 124
K......Page 128
Z......Page 129