Page:An introduction to philosophy (IA Introductiontoph00brig 0).pdf/13

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Philosophical Spirit
§ 1. Philosophy Exists 3
§ 2. Philosophical Terminology Is Difficult 3
§ 3. The Problem of Philosophy 4
§ 4. The Limits of Philosophy 5
§ 5. Philosophy as a Spirit or Method 6
§ 6. The Philosophical Spirit Is Not Absence of Thought 8
§ 7. Not All Thought Is Philosophical 8
§ 8. The Philosophical Spirit Distinguished from the Scientific 9
§ 9. The Perils of the Philosophical Spirit 14
§ 10. Value of the Philosophical Spirit 18
§ 11. Philosophical Methods 22
§ 12. What We May Expect from Philosophy 29
II. How Can We Distinguish Truth from Error?
§ 1. Sketch of the Development of Logic 31
§ 2. The Meaning of Truth 34
§ 3. Instinct as Criterion 35
§ 4. Custom as Criterion 37
§ 5. Tradition as Criterion 38
§ 6. Consensus Gentium 39
§ 7. Feeling as Criterion 41
§ 8. Sense Experience as Criterion 42
§ 9. Intuition as Criterion 46
§ 10. Correspondence as Criterion 49
§ 11. Practical Consequences as Criterion 50
§ 12. Coherence as Criterion 58
III. How Do Our Ideas Refer to Reality?
§ 1. The Problem of Epistemology 67
§ 2. Skepticism 69
§ 3. “Kantian” Subjectivism 72
§ 4. Epistemological Monism 74
§ 5. Epistemological Dualism 78
§ 6. Difficulties in Epistemological Dualism 80