Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Reference Abbreviations
I. The Focal Topic: The Content and Use of Concepts
II. The Strategy of Semantic Descent
III. The Social Dimension of Discursiveness: Normativity and Recognition
IV. The Historical Dimension of Discursiveness: Recollective Rationality
V. Cognition, Recognition, and Recollection: Semantics and Epistemology, Normative Pragmatics, and the Historicity of Geist
Part One. Semantics and Epistemology: Knowing and Representing the Objective World
I. Classical Representational Epistemology
II. Genuine Knowledge and Rational Constraint
III. A Nonpsychological Conception of the Conceptual
IV. Alethic Modal and Deontic Normative Material Incompatibility
I. Introduction
II. Two Dimensions of Intentionality and Two Orders of Explanation
III. Two Kantian Ideas
IV. Hegel’s Pragmatist Functionalist Idea
V. The Mode of Presentation Condition
VI. The Experience of Error
VII. The Two Sides of Conceptual Content Are Representationally Related
VIII. Conclusion
I. The Emergence of the Second Object
II. From Skepticism to Truth through Determinate Negation
III. Recollection and the Science of the Experience of Consciousness
I. Sense Certainty Introduced
II. Two Senses of “Immediacy"
III. A Bad Argument
IV. First Good Argument: Classification
V. Second Good Argument: Anaphoric Recollection
5. Understanding the Object / Property Structure in Terms of Negation: An Introduction to Hegelian Logic and Metaphysics in the Perception Chapter
I. The Lessons of Sense Certainty
II. Determinateness and Exclusive Negation
III. Formal Negation and Two Orders of Explanation
IV. Properties and Objects
V. Two Metaphysical Roles of Objects
VI. Ten Kinds of Metaphysical Differences
VII. From Perception to Understanding
I. Forces as Allegorical for Theoretical Entities
II. Invidious Eddingtonian Theoretical Realism&
III. Holism and the “Play of Forces"
IV. From Forces to Laws as Superfacts
V. The “Inverted World” and Possible-World Semantics
I. Explanation and the Expression of Implicit Laws&
II. Objective Idealism
III. “Infinity” as Holism
IV. Expressivism, Objective Idealism, and Normative Self-Consciousness
Part Two. Normative Pragmatics: Recognition and the Expressive Metaphysics of Agency
I. The Historicity of Essentially Self-Conscious Creatures
II. Identification, Risk, and Sacrifice
III. Creatures Things Can Be Something For: Desire and the Triadic Structure of Orectic Awareness
IV. From Desire to Recognition: Two Interpretive Challenges
V. Simple Recognition: Being Something Things Can Be Something for Is Something Things Can Be for One
VI. Robust Recognition: Specific Recognition of Another as a Recognizer
VII. Self-Consciousness
VIII. Conclusion
I. Normative Statuses and Normative Attitudes: A Regimented Idiom
II. The Kantian Autonomy Model of the Institution of Normative Statuses by Normative Attitudes
III. A Model of General Recognition
IV. A Model of Specific Recognition
V. The Recognitive Institution of Statuses, Subjects, and Communities
VI. The Status-Dependence of Attitudes
VII. Conclusion
I. Introduction: Asymmetrical, Defective Structures of Recognition&
II. The Subordination-Obedience Model
III. Identification
IV. The Practical Conception of Pure Independence
V. The Struggle
VI. The Significance of Victory
VII. The Master-Servant Relationship
VIII. The Metaphysical Irony at the Heart of Mastery
IX. From Subjects to Objects
X. Recognition and Cognition
XI. The Semantic Failures of Stoicism and Skepticism
I. Looking Ahead: From Conceptual Realism and Objective Idealism to Conceptual Idealism
II. Two Sides of the Concept of Action: The Unity and Disparity that Action Involves
III. Two Models of the Unity and Disparity that Action Essentially Involves
IV. Intentional and Consequential Specifications of Actions
V. Practical Success and Failure in the Vulgar Sense: The Vorsatz / Absicht Distinction
VI. Identity of Content of Deed and Intention
VII. Further Structure of the Expressive Process by Which the Intention Develops into the Deed
I. Hegelian vs. Fregean Understandings of Sense and Reference
II. Retrospective and Prospective Perspectives on the Development of Conceptual Contents
III. Intentional Agency as a Model for the Development of Senses
IV. Contraction and Expansion Strategies
Part Three. Recollecting the Ages of Spirit: From Irony to Trust
I. Epochs of Geist
II. Immediate Sittlichkeit
III. The Rise of Subjectivity
IV. Alienation and Culture
I. Introduction: Modernity, Legitimation, and Language&
II. Actual and Pure Consciousness
III. Recognition in Language
IV. Authority and Responsibility in Language as a Model of Freedom&
V. Pure Consciousness: Alienation as a Disparity between Cognition and Recognition
VI. Faith and Trust
VII. Morality and Conscience
I. Two Meta-attitudes
II. The Kammerdiener
III. The Authority of Normative Attitudes and Statuses&
IV. Naturalism and Genealogy
V. Four Meta-meta-attitudes
VI. Looking Forward to Magnanimity
I. Niederträchtig Assessment
II. Confession
III. Forgiveness
IV. Recollection
V. The Conditions of Determinate Contentfulness
VI. Trust and Magnanimous Agency
VII. Hegel’s Recollective Project
I. Edifying Semantics
II. Geist, Modernity, and Alienation
III. Some Contemporary Expressions of Alienation in Philosophical Theories
IV. Three Stages in the Articulation of Idealism
V. Recollection: How the Process of Experience Determines Conceptual Contents and Semantic Relations
VI. From Verstand to Vernunft: Truth and the Determinateness of Conceptual Content
VII. Normativity and Recognition
VIII. Dimensions of Holism: Identity through Difference
IX. Truth as Subject, Geist as Self-Conscious
X. The Age of Trust: Reachieving Heroic Agency&
XI. Forgiveness: Recognition as Recollection
Afterword: To the Best of My Recollection
Notes
Index