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Index
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Translator’s Note
Introduction
Part I. The End of Philosophy, or the Paradoxes of Speaking
1. Skeptical and Scientific “Post-philosophy”
The “Postanalytic” Moment
The Dissolution of Philosophy in a Positive Science
Naturalism as a Paradoxical Synthesis
Conclusions: Self-refutation and Oscillation Between Scientism and Skepticism
2. “Saying and the Said”: Two Paradigms for the Same Subject
Opposition or Overlap of Paradigms?
The Evolution of the Linguistic Paradigm: Pragmatism
“Turning Phenomenology”?
Conclusions: Performative Contradiction and Oscillation Between Skepticism and Positivism
3. The Antispeculative View: Habermas as an Example
A Philosophy in Three Movements, Epitomizing Three Possible Antispeculative Approaches
Philosophy as Therapy: Knowledge and Human Interests
Philosophy as Inquiry into Conditions of Possibility: “Universal Pragmatics”
From Universal Pragmatics to Fallibilist Pragmatism
Conclusions: Confirmation of the Diagnosis
4. Kant’s Shadow in the Current Philosophical Landscape
The Skeptical Future of Kantianism: Reconstruction from the Critique of Judgment
The “Strong” Version of the Transcendental: Karl-Otto Apel
Conclusions: The Impossibility of Speaking of the End of Philosophy
Part II. Challenging the “Death of Philosophy”: The Reflexive a Priori
5. A Definition of the Model: Scientific Learning and Philosophical Knowledge
Why This Moment Rather Than Another?
The Problem of the Status of the Philosopher’s Discourse
The Concept of Reflexive Identity, or Self-reference
The Power of the Model: The Law of Self-reference and Philosophical Truth
Self-reference and Knowledge of Knowledge: Metacognitive Problems
Self-reference and the Act of Speaking
Conclusions: Congruence Between Statement and Utterance, Said and Saying
6. The Model of Self-reference’s Consistency
The Theory of Reflexivity and Current Theories of Self-reference
The Theory of Reflexivity and the Prohibition Against Self-referential Propositions
Conclusions: The Application of Propositions to Themselves
7. The Model’s Fecundity
A New Definition of Transcendental Argument
The New Version of the Argument as a Possible Overcoming of the “Dispute About Transcendental Arguments”
The Transcendental Argument’s Positivity and the “Utility” of the Law of Reflexivity
Conclusions: A Proposal for a Model of Application
8. Beyond the Death of Philosophy
Part III. The End of Philosophy in Perspective: The Source of the Reflexive Deficit
9. The “Race to Reference”
10. The Tension Between Reference and Self-reference in the Kantian System
Representation
Reflection
Use of the Term “Intellectual Representation” as an Expression of the Tension Between Representation and Reflection
Conclusions: The Two Orientations
11. Helmholtz’s Choice as a Choice for Reference: The Naturalization of Critique
From the Transcendental to the A Priori
The Psychophysiological Interpretation of the A Priori
The Physiological Future of the Distinction Between Things in Themselves and Phenomena
Conclusions: A Single Orientation, the Origin of Two Paradigms
12. Critique: A Positivist Theory of Knowledge or Existential Ontology?
The Kantian Problematic in Heidegger and Cohen
Explaining Knowledge: Valorization of the “Aesthetic” or the “Analytic”?
Which Edition?
The Meaning of the Object
Radical Finitude and the Question of Being as Emphasizing an Orientation
Conclusions: Common Ground—The Exclusive Idea of Reference
13. Questioning the History of Philosophy
Overcoming Historicism Without Returning to the Past
Interpretation and Argumentation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
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