Experience and Beyond

Preface and Introduction.- 1 Evolutionary Naturalism.- The manifest image.- The scientific image.- Kant's metaphysical dualism.- Evolutionary epistemology.- 2 Evolution and Human Cognition.- The Darwinian legacy. Setting the legacy straight.- A fallacy of naturalization.- Intention and innate dispositions.- 3 Sensation, Perception, and Observation.- Perception as belief acquisition.- From perception to observation.- Theory-ladenness.- Instrumental observation.- Observability.- 4 Theory and Reality.- Forms of realism.- Conceptual frameworks and external commitments.- Theory realism.- The success argument.- Constructive empiricism.- Structural realism.- The failure of representationalism.- 5 Truth, Language, and Objectivity.- What is truth?.- Truth and meaning.- Non-realism concerning Truth.- A naturalized notion of truth.- Semantics and ontology.- 6 Abstraction and Reification.- Common sense and externality.- What makes an entity abstract?.- Abstract objects versus abstracted concepts.- Why did abstracted concepts evolve?.- 7 In Defence of Nominalism.- Concrete, artificial, and nominal particulars.- Particulars and universals.- Conceptualism.- 8 Space, Time, and Space-time.- The existence of Space.- The existence of Time.- Space-time substantivalism.- Space-time relationism.- Space-time as an abstracted concept.- Are space and time invented or discovered?.- 9 Causality and Counterfactuality.- The concept.- Regularity.- Modality.- 10 Human Evolution and Mathematical Physics.- Mathematics and representational knowledge.- Mathematics - the language of quantities.- Possible worlds, many worlds and multiverses.- The Copenhagen interpretation: a non-representational view.- 11 Conclusion.- Bibliography.