8. Subjectivist and objectivist interpretations of controversy-based thought

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Discussing with oneself
6. 1. Debating with myself and debating with others 33
7. 2. Being in accordance with oneself 75
8. 3. Conversion and controversy 91
9. 4. Controversies and the logic of scientific discovery 115
10. 5. Controversies and dialogic intersubjectivity 127
11. 6. Disagreement, self-agreement, and self-deception 157
12. Part II: The first person
13. 7. Intersubjectivity in controversy 173
14. 8. Subjectivist and objectivist interpretations of controversy-based thought 185
15. 9. Temporality, reification and subjectivity 201
16. 10. First person singular in 17th century controversies 235
17. 11. Subjective justifications 251
18. 12. Early modern controversies and theories of controversy 263
19. 13. Externalism, internalism, and self-knowledge 283
20. Part III: The politics of subjectivity
21. 14. Liberals vs. communitarians on the self 303
22. 15. Ethical implications of de-dichotomization of identities in conflict 325
23. 16. The role of subjectivity in public controversy 337
24. 17. The Sokal affair 353
25. 18. Archaic subjectivity and/as controversy in psychoanalytic thinking 371
26. The contributors to this volume 395
27. Indexes 401