5. The Nature of Metaphysics: Its Function, Criteria, and Method

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword VII
3. Contents IX
4. Prologue 1
5. Part I. Toward, the Theory of History
6. 1. The Theory of History 23
7. 2. On the Understanding of Histories 37
8. 3. History as an Instrument of Understanding: The Genetic Method and Historical Determinism 63
9. 4. History as an Instrument of Understanding: Historical Decision 94
10. Part II. Toward the Theory of Nature
11. 5. The Nature of Metaphysics: Its Function, Criteria, and Method 121
12. 6. Substance as a Cooperation of Processes: A Metaphysical Analysis 143
13. 7. Empirical Pluralism and Unifications of Nature 195
14. 8. Ways of Construing Mind and Intelligibility 215
15. 9. An Empirical and Naturalistic Theory of Signs, Signification, Universals, and Symbols 237
16. 10. Qualities, Qualification, and the Aesthetic Transaction 271
17. Epilogue. Unifications of Knowledge: What Is the World to Be Unified? 296