Hegel's epistemology : a philosophical introduction to the Phenomenology of spirit

Provides a succinct philosophical introduction to Hegel's PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT for non-specialists and students, focusing on Hegel's unique and insightful theory of knowledge and its relations to 20th-century epistemology. Table of Contents......Page 5 Acknowledgments......Page 9 References and Abbreviations......Page 13 ONE Introduction......Page 15 TWO Introducing Hegel's Phenomenological Method......Page 21 4 Creon as a Form of Consciousness......Page 28 5 The Internal Critique of Creon's Form of Consciousness in Antigone......Page 31 6 Summary of the Internal Critique of Creon in Antigone......Page 40 7 Reflections on Judgment and Reflective Judgment in Antigone......Page 43 8 Reflective Judgment in Hegel's Phenomenological Method......Page 48 9 Rational Justification and the Dilemma of the Criterion......Page 52 10 Hegel's Analysis of the Self-Critical Structure of Consciousness......Page 54 11 Mature Judgment, Fallibilism, and Pragmatic Rationality......Page 61 12 Key Theses of Hegel's Epistemology......Page 65 13 Hegel's Key Epistemological Arguments in the Phenomenology......Page 70 15 Summary of Hegel's Transcendental Argument for Realism......Page 79 17 Cognitive Activity and Realism about the Objects of Human Knowledge......Page 86 18 Justificatory "Coherence" and Realism about the Objects of Human Knowledge......Page 87 19 Hegel's Semantic Externalism......Page 89 20 Reason versus Tradition?......Page 91 21 Hegel's Justification of (Pure) A Priori Conceptions......Page 96 22 Perceptual Synthesis and the Identification of Objects......Page 99 23 The Significance of Rejecting Reductionism......Page 101 24 Philosophy, History, and History of Philosophy......Page 103 25 Justification through Internal Critique......Page 106 26 Key Features of Dretske's Information-Theoretic Epistemology......Page 107 27 Information Channels and Human Knowledge......Page 108 28 Internalism and Externalism in Hegel's Epistemology......Page 112 29 Individualism in Recent Epistemology......Page 117 30 Some Basic Problems with Individualism in Epistemology......Page 118 31 Some Individualist Rejoinders......Page 119 32 Individualism, Holism, and Hegel's Moderate Collectivism......Page 121 33 Substantive Individualism in Recent Epistemology......Page 123 34 Holism and Hegel's Moderate Collectivism......Page 124 35 Moderate Collectivism and "the" Subject of Knowledge......Page 126 36 Hegel's Moderate Collectivism versus "Plural Subjects"......Page 127 37 The Barrenness of the "Individualism- Holism" Dispute......Page 128 Recommended Readings......Page 131 Bibliography......Page 139 Name Index......Page 151 Subject Index......Page 153