Preface and Introduction.- 1 Evolutionary Naturalism.- The manifest image.- The scientific image.-Kant's metaphysical dualism.- Evolutionary epistemology.- 2 Evolution and HumanCognition.- The Darwinian legacy.
Setting the legacy straight.- A fallacy ofnaturalization.- Intention and innate dispositions.- 3 Sensation, Perception,and Observation.- Perception as belief acquisition.- From perception to observation.- Theory-ladenness.- Instrumentalobservation.
- Observability.-4 Theory and Reality.- Forms of realism.- Conceptual frameworks and externalcommitments.- Theory realism.- The success argument.- Constructive empiricism.-Structural realism.
- The failure of representationalism.- 5 Truth, Language,and Objectivity.- What istruth?.- Truth and meaning.- Non-realism concerning Truth.- A naturalized notionof truth.- Semantics and ontology.- 6 Abstraction and Reification.
- Commonsense and externality.- What makes an entity abstract?.- Abstract objectsversus abstracted concepts.- Why did abstracted concepts evolve?.- 7 In Defenceof Nominalism.- Concrete, artificial, and nominal particulars.- Particulars anduniversals.- Conceptualism.
- 8 Space, Time, and Space-time.- The existence of Space.-The existence of Time.- Space-time substantivalism.- Space-time relationism.- Space-timeas an abstracted concept.- Are space and time invented or discovered?.- 9Causality and Counterfactuality.
- The concept.- Regularity.- Modality.- 10Human Evolution and Mathematical Physics.- Mathematics and representationalknowledge.- Mathematics - the language of quantities.- Possible worlds, many worldsand multiverses.- The Copenhagen interpretation: a non-representational view.
- 11Conclusion.- Bibliography.