Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- The Natural Sciences -- 1.1 Rationalistic Neurosis -- 1.2 The Neurosis of Natural Science -- 1.3 Problems of the Real, Un-Neurotic Aim of Science -- 1.4 Does the Neurosis of Science Matter? -- Implications for Natural Science -- 2.1 Rational Scientific Discovery -- 2.2 The Philosophy of Science -- 2.3 From Physics to Natural Philosophy -- 2.4 Science and Values -- 2.5 Science and Politics -- Implications for Social Inquiry -- 3.1 The Crisis of Science without Wisdom -- 3.2 The Traditional Enlightenment -- 3.3 The Three Blunders -- 3.4 The New Enlightenment Employing Problem-Solving Rationality -- 3.5 The New Enlightenment Employing Aim-Oriented Rationality -- 3.6 The Damaging Neurosis of Social Science -- 3.7 Philosophy and Sociology of Science -- 3.8 Academic Neurosis -- 3.9 Philosophical Neurosis -- 3.10 Self-Preservation of Institutional Neurosis -- 3.11 The Neurosis of Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice -- 3.12 Conclusion -- What Is to Be Done? -- 4.1 Questions -- 4.2 Recapitulation -- 4.3 From Knowledge to Wisdom -- 4.4 Objections -- 4.5 What Are Our Most Serious Problems of Living and How Could Wisdom-Inquiry Help? -- 4.6 Apathy -- 4.7 Inefficacy of Academia -- 4.8 Future Prospects -- Appendix -- 1 Physics and Metaphysics -- 2 Problems Concerning Unity and Simplicity of Physical Theory -- 3 Arguments For and Against Aim-Oriented Empiricism (AOE) -- 4 Rational Discovery of New, Fundamental Physical Theories -- 5 A Possible Alternative to Physicalism -- 6 Does Aim-Oriented Empiricism Solve the Problem of Induction? -- References -- Index.