Constructing The World

My book Constructing the World was published in October 2012. Some pieces of the manuscript are still available online: some material from the beginning of the book, as well as an extra chapter and four additional excursuses in an extended edition that didn't make it into the printed version.

Table of Contents

Introduction

How to Read this Book

1. Scrutability and the Aufbau

• First Excursus: Scrutability and Knowability
• Second Excursus: The Inscrutability of Reference and the Scrutability of Truth

2. Varieties of Scrutability

• Third Excursus: Sentential and Propositional Scrutability
• Fourth Excursus: Warrants and Support Structures
• Fifth Excursus: Insulated Idealization and the Problem of Self-Doubt

3. Adventures with a Cosmoscope

• Sixth Excursus: Totality Truths and Indexical Truths

4. The Case for A Priori Scrutability

• Seventh Excursus: Varieties of Apriority
• Eighth Excursus: Recent Challenges to the A Priori

5. Revisability and Conceptual Change

• Ninth Excursus: Scrutability and Conceptual Dynamics
• Tenth Excursus: Constructing Epistemic Space
• Eleventh Excursus: Constructing Fregean Senses

6. Hard Cases

• Twelfth Excursus: Scrutability and the Unity of Science

7. Minimizing the Base

• Thirteenth Excursus: From the Aufbau to the Canberra Plan
• Fourteenth Excursus: Epistemic Rigidity and Super-Rigidity

8. The Structure of the World

• Summation: Whither the Aufbau?

• Fifteenth Excursus: The Structuralist Response to Skepticism
• Sixteenth Excursus: Scrutability, Supervenience, and Grounding.
• Seventeenth Excursus: Explaining Scrutability

[See the extended edition for additional material here.]

Glossary

Bibliography