Contents -- Preface -- 1 Hope and Reason -- 1 Sources of Skepticism -- 2 Democracy as a Space of Reasons -- 2 Neither Slave nor Master: Reason and Emotion -- 1 Alarming Data -- 2 Two Pictures -- 3 Lifting a Finger -- 4 Intuition: What Just Seems Right -- 5 Without Reason? -- 3 "Nothing but Dreams and Smoke" -- 1 Skepticism from the Tower -- 2 Certain and Assured -- 3 Skepticism and Epistemic Incommensurability -- 4 Reasons End: Tradition and Common Sense -- 1 That Is Just How Things Are Done -- 2 Common Sense and Presuppositions -- 5 The "Sacred Tradition of Humanity" -- 1 Belief, Faith, and Commitment -- 2 Objectivity and a Common Point of View -- 3 The Method Game -- 4 Questions and Answers -- 6 Truth and the Pathos of Distance -- 1 A Picture of Knowledge -- 2 Truth and Inquiry -- 3 Representing the World -- 4 Truth and the Human -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 1 Hope and Reason -- 2 Neither Slave nor Master: Reason and Emotion -- 3 "Nothing but Dreams and Smoke" -- 4 Reasons End: Tradition and Common Sense -- 5 The "Sacred Tradition of Humanity" -- 6 Truth and the Pathos of Distance -- Conclusion -- Index.