| Matter | |
| Philosophy as Worldview | p. 3 |
| World and Worldview | p. 4 |
| Monism and Pluralism | p. 6 |
| Metaphysics: Commonsensical, Speculative, and Scientific | p. 8 |
| Determinism and Contingency, Causation and Chance | p. 12 |
| Epistemology: Skepticism, Subjectivism, Realism | p. 13 |
| The Epistemology-Ontology Connection | p. 15 |
| Practical Philosophy | p. 19 |
| The Political Connection | p. 21 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 22 |
| Classical Matter: Bodies and Fields | p. 23 |
| Traditional Concepts and Principles: Mechanism | p. 24 |
| Further Features of the Classical Picture | p. 29 |
| The Decline of Mechanism: Fields | p. 31 |
| Aditional Decline: Thermodynamics | p. 33 |
| Special Relativity | p. 35 |
| Gravitation | p. 38 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 38 |
| Quantum Matter: Weird But Real | p. 41 |
| Meet the Quanton | p. 43 |
| Loss of Individuality | p. 45 |
| Loss of Vacuum and Stability | p. 47 |
| Neatness Lost | p. 49 |
| Irreducible Chance | p. 54 |
| Paradoxes | p. 56 |
| Materialism vs. Idealism | p. 57 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 59 |
| General Concept of Matter: To Be Is To Become | p. 61 |
| Energy | p. 62 |
| Information | p. 66 |
| Digital Metaphysics | p. 68 |
| What's Out There | p. 69 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 72 |
| Emergence and Levels | p. 73 |
| Physical Matter | p. 75 |
| Chemical Matter | p. 78 |
| Living Matter | p. 81 |
| Thinking Matter | p. 84 |
| Social Matter | p. 84 |
| Artificial Matter | p. 85 |
| Emergence | p. 86 |
| Levels | p. 89 |
| Epistemological Partner | p. 91 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 92 |
| Naturalism | p. 93 |
| Spiritualism | p. 95 |
| Naturalism | p. 96 |
| Phenomenalism | p. 102 |
| Physicalism | p. 103 |
| Biologism | p. 104 |
| Naturalism's Three Musketeers | p. 108 |
| Psychologism | p. 110 |
| Naturalized Linguistics, Axiology, Ethics, Law, and Technology | p. 112 |
| Neuro This and Neuro That | p. 117 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 118 |
| Materialism | p. 121 |
| Classical Materialism | p. 122 |
| Dialectical Materialism | p. 124 |
| Historical and Australian Materialisms | p. 127 |
| Scientific Materialism: Emergent, Systemic, and Science-Based | p. 131 |
| Materialist This and That | p. 134 |
| Hylorealism | p. 138 |
| Spirituality in a Material World | p. 139 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 139 |
| Mind | |
| The Mind-Body Problem | p. 143 |
| Introductory Dialogue | p. 145 |
| Science, Philosophy, and Religion Intersect | p. 146 |
| Classical Psychoneural Dualism | p. 148 |
| Mind Over Matter? | p. 151 |
| Dualism is Hazardous | p. 154 |
| Explaining Subjectivity Objectively | p. 156 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 157 |
| Minding Matter: The Plastic Brain | p. 159 |
| Pychoneural Identity | p. 160 |
| Supervenience and Emergence | p. 162 |
| The Plastic Brain | p. 163 |
| Localization-Cum-Coordination | p. 166 |
| Advantages of Psychoneural Monism | p. 171 |
| The Qualia Objection to Psychoneural Identity | p. 172 |
| Reduction and Merger | p. 176 |
| Concluding Remarks | p. 180 |
| Mind and Society | p. 181 |
| Development | p. 182 |
| I and Us | p. 185 |
| From Bonding Hormones to Mirror Neurons to Morals | p. 187 |
| Evolution: Preliminaries | p. 189 |
| Evolution: Biocultural | p. 192 |
| What Makes Us Human | p. 195 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 198 |
| Cognition, Consciousness, and Free Will | p. 201 |
| Cognition and Knowledge | p. 201 |
| Hebb's Hypothesis | p. 203 |
| Thought, Proposition, Sentence | p. 205 |
| Consciousness: The Holy Grail | p. 206 |
| Kinds of Consciousness | p. 209 |
| The Neuroscientific Approach | p. 213 |
| The Dual Role of Consciousness | p. 214 |
| The Self | p. 217 |
| Free Will | p. 220 |
| Explanation by Causes and by Reasons | p. 224 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 225 |
| Brain and Computer: The Hardware/Software Dualism | p. 227 |
| Do Computers Reason? | p. 228 |
| The Computer Metaphor | p. 230 |
| Criticism | p. 233 |
| Software is Rather Hard | p. 234 |
| Machine vs. Man? | p. 235 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 237 |
| Knowledge: Genuine and Bogus | p. 239 |
| Science and Pseudoscience | p. 240 |
| Philosophical Matrix of Scientific Progress | p. 242 |
| Pseudoscience | p. 246 |
| Immaterialism in the Study of Matter | p. 247 |
| Exploring the Unconscious: Fact and Fancy, Science and Business | p. 248 |
| Speculative Evolutionary Psychology | p. 250 |
| Borderline Minefields: Proto and Semi | p. 253 |
| The Pseudoscience-Politics Connection | p. 255 |
| Mercenary Science | p. 259 |
| Philosophy: Genuine and Bogus, Proscience and Antiscience | p. 260 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 264 |
| Appendices | |
| Appendix A: Objects | p. 267 |
| Individuals and Properties | p. 267 |
| Material Objects | p. 269 |
| Emergence and Levels | p. 271 |
| State and Process | p. 272 |
| Ideal Objects | p. 274 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 275 |
| Appendix B: Truths | p. 277 |
| Ontological Concept of Factual Truth | p. 278 |
| The Correspondence Functions | p. 279 |
| Methodological Concept of Truth | p. 281 |
| Partial Truth | p. 281 |
| The Problem is Still Open | p. 284 |
| Closing Remarks | p. 285 |
| References | p. 287 |
| Index | p. 305 |
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