Conquest of Abundance

Acknowledgments
Preface
A Note on the Editing
Part One: The Unfinished Manuscript
Introduction
1. Achilles' Conjecture
2. Xenophanes
3. Parmenides and the Logic of Being
Interlude: On the Ambiguity of Interpretations
4. Brunelleschi and the Invention of Perspective
Part Two: Essays on the Manuscript's Themes
1. Realism and the Historicity of Knowledge
2. Has the Scientific View of the World a Special Status Compared with Other Views?
3. Quantum Theory and Our View of the World
4. Realism
5. Historical Comments on Realism
6. What Reality?
7. Aristotle
8. Art as a Product of Nature as a Work of Art
9. Ethics as a Measure of Scientific Truth
10. Universals as Tyrants and as Mediators
11. Intellectuals and the Facts of Life
12. Concerning an Appeal for Philosophy