Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction. You, Me, Kant, and Carroll 1
5. Chapter 1. The Nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll 32
6. Chapter 2. A Comparatist’s Risks and Rewards 38
7. Chapter 3. A Handful of Rules against Philosophical Self-Isolation 49
8. Chapter 4. What Death Makes of Philosophy 59
9. Chapter 5. Keeping the World Together 68
10. Chapter 6. The Common Universe of Aesthetics 83
11. Chapter 7. Are the Deaf and Blind Epistemologically Isolated? 97
12. Chapter 8. Pain, Cruelty, and Pathology in Art 104
13. Chapter 9. On the Transparency and Opacity of Philosophers 110
14. Chapter 10. The Three Philosophical Traditions 121
15. Chapter 11. Does Philosophy Progress? 138
16. Chapter 12. Nonutopian Observations on Machiavellism 152
17. Chapter 13. On the Nature and Limits of Ineffability. Ineffabilities Are the Demons and Angels of Incompleteness and Incompletability. What Can and Cannot Words Express? 192
18. Chapter 14. The Bird with Bread in Its Beak 217
19. Chapter 15. You, Me, and Kaufmann’s Discovering the Mind 222
20. Sources 229
21. Notes 231