Hegel's Epistemology: A Philosophical Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit

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