Constructing The World: Extended Edition
David Chalmers
My book
Constructing the World was published in October 2012. In the
final stages I decided to omit one chapter and four excursuses from
the printed version, mainly on the grounds that the book is long
already (500 pages even without that material). Instead I left that
material for an online extended edition, which can be found here. The
relevant material is in chapter 9 and excursuses 18-21 at the bottom
of this page.
Table of Contents
Introduction
How to Read this Book
1. Scrutability and the Aufbau
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
9. Verbal Disputes and Philosophical Progress.
Glossary
Bibliography