Philosophy in the Shadow of Tomorrow

Acknowledgments    v

Introduction    vii

Chapter 1 The Fixation of Belief and How to Make Our Ideas Clear    1 

                by Charles S. Peirce

                Summary 13
Chapter 2  Scientific Revolution by Ian Hacking    14

                Summary 22

Chapter 3 Logical Positivism and Its Legacy by A. J. Ayer    24

                Summary 35

Chapter 4 Heidegger and Modern Existentialism by William Barrett 38

                Summary 53

Chapter 5 The Two Philosophies of Wittgenstein by Anthony Quinton    56

                Summary 69

Chapter 6 A Reconsideration of Deweyan Democracy by Hilary Putnam    72

                Summary 91

Chapter 7 The Self as a Narrative Center of Gravity by Daniel Dennett    94

                Summary 102

Chapter 8 Euthyphro by Plato    104

                Summary 118

Chapter 9 Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche    121

                Summary 126

Chapter 10 You Should Be Terrified of Superintelligent Machines by Nick Bostrom 128
 

                Summary 131