Table of Contents.
Part 1 In
Search of the Transcendental Elements of Human Knowledge
The Non-Rational
and Non-Empirical Elements in Rational/Empirical Knowledge
Chapter
1 The Composite Nature of Knowledge
The
Conceptual Foundations of Science
Establishing
Facts
The
Theorem of the Threefold Basis of Knowledge
The
Transformation of Hume's Problem by the Involvement of the Self-Conscious
Mind
Transcendental
Knowledge
Part 2 In Search of Transcendental Physical
Reality
The Non-Material,
Non-Real, Non-Local, and Mind-like Components of Physical Reality
Chapter 2
The Wave-Particle Duality
Waves
and Particles
The
Conceptual Consequences
Transcendental
Reality
Part 3 In Search of Transcendental Human Nature
Chapter
3 The Human Mystery
The
Argument from Evolution
The
Argument from Popper's Three-Worlds Hypothesis
The
Argument from the Creation of a Self
The
Argument from the mystery of Conscious Perception
Chapter
4 Chance and Necessity
Tradition
of Objectivity Versus Tradition of Purpose
The
Laws of Physics and Chemistry
Against
Eccles' Argument from Evolution
Against
Eccles' Argument from the Creation of Self
Rejecting
the Animist Covenant
Part 4 Divine Reality
Chapter
5 The Importance of the Self-Consious Mind
The
Interaction of Mind and Matter: Information as a Causal Agent
The
Importance of the Self-Consious Mind as a Basis for Knowledge
The
Opening of the Universe
Chapter
6 Healing the Wound
Objective
Knowledge in a Life with Values
The
Significance of the Epistemological Paradox
The
Self-Conscious Mind as the Basis of Ethics
On the
Foundations of Ethics in the Mind-like Order of the Universe
The
Transformation of Hume's Fundamental Problem of Ethics
The
Restoration of the Covenant
Epilogue
On the Foundations of Metaphysics
in the Mind-like Background of Physical Reality
Appendices
1. The
Illegitimate Components of Knowledge
2. The failure
of Intuition
3. Some Aspects
of Causality
4. Science and
the Humanities
5. Popper's Logic
of Science
6. Some Properties
of Waves and Particles
7. Schrödinger's
Wave Mechanics
8. The Meaning
of Y
9. Empty
Atoms as Platonic Forms
10. Some Aspects
of the Nature of Quantum States
11. Heisenberg's
Uncertainty Principle
12. The Surrealism
of Superpositions of States: The Case of Schrödinger's Cat
13. The
Pauli Principle
14. The EPR Paradox
15. The Non-Locality
of the Universe
16. Some Technical
Details Concerning Bell's Theorem
17. The Emergence
of Historical Philosophical Views in Quantum Ontology
18. Defining a
Realistic View of the World
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