Enlightenment Positions

1. Philosphy par excellence
   1. Restor Diversity of knowledge
      
   2. Modern Philosophy as arbiter of truth
   3. What was the Enlightenment project
2. Science and Knowledge Proper
   
   1. Descartes on knowledge
      
   2. Rationalists
   3. Empiricists
   4. Science and knowledge
3. The Invention of Mind
   
   1. Descartes and the search for certainty
      
   2. The Mind as a product of doubt
4. Synthesis of Subjectivity and Objectivity
   
   1. Bringing togeather form and content
      
      1. “Things-in-themselves”
         
5. ​The Superiority of Universal Reason
   
   1. Both rationalists and empiricists rely on reason
      
6. Foundationalism in Philosophy
   
   1. ​Philosophy as the preferred way to truth
      

​Experience and Modality

1. Experience: A Single Whole
   
   1. Proposed divisions in experience
      
   2. Experience knows no final division
2. Truth: A Condition of Thought
   1. What is truth?
      
   2. Internal versus external criteria for truth
   3. What is Thinking?
   4. No fixed meaning for a single idea
   5. Coherence theory of truth
3. Reality: The Given in Experience
   1. Knowledge and reality
      
   2. Idealism
   3. Against rationalism
   4. Against empiricism
   5. What is real?
   6. Experience, reality and truth
4. Modality: 3 Characteristics
   1. What is modality?
      
   2. Why do modes develop?
   3. Modes are not separate aspects of experience
   4. 3 aspects of a mode
      1. ​Abstract
         
      2. Cannot transcend its conditions
      3. Governed by its own postulates