6. “Force” and Understanding—From Object to Concept: The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities and the Laws that Implicitly Define Them

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Reference Abbreviations xiii
4. Introduction: A Pragmatist Semantic Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology 1
5. PART ONE. Semantics and Epistemology: Knowing and Representing the Objective World
6. 1. Conceptual Realism and the Semantic Possibility of Knowledge 35
7. 2. Representation and the Experience of Error: A Functionalist Approach to the Distinction between Appearance and Reality 63
8. 3. Following the Path of Despair to a Bacchanalian Revel: The Emergence of the New, True Object 87
9. 4. Immediacy, Generality, and Recollection: First Lessons on the Structure of Epistemic Authority 107
10. 5. Understanding the Object / Property Structure in Terms of Negation: An Introduction to Hegelian Logic and Metaphysics in the Perception Chapter 133
11. 6. “Force” and Understanding—From Object to Concept: The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities and the Laws that Implicitly Define Them 169
12. 7. Objective Idealism and Modal Expressivism 198
13. PART TWO. Normative Pragmatics: Recognition and the Expressive Metaphysics of Agency
14. 8. The Structure of Desire and Recognition: Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution 235
15. 9. The Fine Structure of Autonomy and Recognition: The Institution of Normative Statuses by Normative Attitudes 262
16. 10. Allegories of Mastery: The Pragmatic and Semantic Basis of the Metaphysical Incoherence of Authority without Responsibility 313
17. 11. Hegel’s Expressive Metaphysics of Agency: The Determination, Identity, and Development of What Is Done 363
18. 12. Recollection, Representation, and Agency 422
19. PART THREE. Recollecting the Ages of Spirit: From Irony to Trust
20. 13. The History of Normative Structures: On Beyond Immediate Sittlichkeit 469
21. 14. Alienation and Language 500
22. 15. Edelmütigkeit and Niederträchtigkeit: The Kammerdiener 547
23. 16. Confession and Forgiveness, Recollection and Trust 583
24. Conclusion: Semantics with an Edifying Intent: Recognition and Recollection on the Way to the Age of Trust 636
25. Afterword: To the Best of My Recollection 759
26. Notes 771
27. Index 793