Constructing The World

This is the current table of contents for my draft manuscript Constructing the World. Note that the excursuses are included at the end of the file for the preceding chapter (or coda).

Introduction

How to Read this Book

1. Scrutability and the Aufbau

• First Excursus: Scrutability and Knowability

• Second Excursus: The Inscrutability of Reference and the Scrutability of Truth

2. Varieties of Scrutability

• Third Excursus: Sentential and Propositional Scrutability

• Fourth Excursus: Warrants and Support Structures

3. Adventures with a Cosmoscope

• Fifth Excursus: Totality Truths and Indexical Truths

• Sixth Excursus: Insulated Idealization and the Problem of Self-Doubt

4. The Case for A Priori Scrutability

• Seventh Excursus: Varieties of Apriority

• Eighth Excursus: Recent Challenges to the A Priori

5. Revisability and Conceptual Change

• Ninth Excursus: Scrutability and Conceptual Dynamics

• Tenth Excursus: Constructing Epistemic Space

6. Hard Cases

• Eleventh Excursus: The Fregean and the Russellian

• Twelfth Excursus: Scrutability and the Unity of Science

7. Minimizing the Base

• Thirteenth Excursus: Twin-Earthability and Narrow Content

• Fourteenth Excursus: Epistemic Rigidity and Super-Rigidity

8. The Structure of the World

• Summation: Whither the Aufbau?

• Fifteenth Excursus: From the Aufbau to the Canberra Plan

• Sixteenth Excursus: The Structuralist Response to Skepticism

9. Verbal Disputes

• Seventeenth Excursus: Conceptual Analysis and Ordinary Language Philosophy

• Eighteenth Excursus: Inferentialism and Analyticity

Coda: Explaining Scrutability

• Nineteenth Excursus: Scrutability, Supervenience, and Grounding.

• Twentieth Excursus: Reference Magnets and the Grounds of Intentionality

Glossary

Bibliography