Table of Contents
Preface.
Part I: Witches and Witch-Hunters. 1. Two Stories About Evil: Christianity and the Creation of Witches.
2. The Tamblyn Lectures:
De Praestigiis Daemonum: Early Modern Witchcraft: Some Philosophical Reflections.
Part II: Philosophy and Science from Leibniz to Kant. 3.Leibniz' Monads: A Heritage of Gnosticism and a Source of Rational Science.
4. Rationalism in Modern Science: d'Alembert and the `esprit simpliste'.
5. Hume's Scepticism.
6. Husserl's Critique of Hume's Notion of Distinctions of Reason.
7. The Role of Arational Factors in Interpretive History: The Case of Kant and ESP.
8. Kant's Theory of Musical Sound: An Early Exercise in Cognitive Science.
9. Kant's Dialectic and the Logic of Illusion.
Part III: Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science. 10. The Hypothetico-Deductive Model of Scientific Theories: A Sympathetic Disclaimer.
11. Methodology and the Functional Identity of Science and Philosophy.
12. Sciences and Pseudosciences: An Attempt at a New Form of Demarcation.
13. The Reception of German Scientific Philosophy in North America: 1930-1962.