Table of Contents

The End of Metaphysics: Philosophy’s Supreme Fiction?.- ‘The End of Metaphysics’ and the Historiography of Philosophy.- The End of Metaphysics: A Comment.- Reply to Ayers and Manser.- Epistemology without Foundations.- Philosophy after Rorty.- Comment on Rorty.- ‘Heterodox’, ‘Xenodox’, and Hermeneutic Dialogue.- Reply to Mary Hesse.- Occultism and Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century.- Occultism and Reason.- Reply to Simon Schaffer.- First Philosophy and Natural Philosophy in Descartes.- Cartesian Science in France, 1660–1700.- Caricatures in the History of Philosophy: The Case of Spinoza.- Leibniz’s Break with Cartesian ‘Rationalism’.- Lockean Mechanism.- Lockean Mechanism: A Comment.- Hume and the “Metaphysical Argument A Priori”.- The Historical and Philosophical Significance of Hume’s Theory of the Self.- Kant’s Refutation of Idealism.- The Hagiography of Common Sense: Dugald Stewart’s Account of the Life and Writings of Thomas Reid.