Preface -- 1 Philosophical Progress -- 1.1 The Question of Progress -- 1.2 Presidential Perspectives -- 1.3 Experiential Contextualism -- 1.4 Technical Progress -- 1.5 Present Prospects -- 2 Issues of Ultimate Explanation -- 2.1 Some Ontological Theses -- 2.2 The Axiological Turn -- 2.3 The Role of Intelligence in Axiology -- 2.4 An Oversimple Illustration of Formation by Selective Elimination -- 2.5 Summary -- 3 Evidentiating Free Will -- 3.1 The Problem Setting -- 3.2 Understanding Free Will -- 3.3 Evidentiating Free Will -- 3.4 Is Free Will Unscientific? -- 3.5 Libet Problems -- 3.6 Free-Will Naturalism and Evolution -- 4 God and the Grounding of Morality -- 4.1 The Best-Interest Theory of Morality -- 4.2 The Divine-Command Theory of Morality -- 4.3 A Different Turning: The Duty-of-Gratitude Theory of Morality -- 4.4 But Are Those Opportunities for the Good Real? -- 4.5 Summary -- 4.6 A Postscript on the Insufficiency of Divine Command Theory -- 5 Contextuality and the Relation to Science and Religion -- 5.1 Contextuality -- 5.2 The Relation of Science and Religion -- 5.3 Directive Understanding -- 6 Value Exclusion and Neutrality in Science -- 6.1 Is/Ought Separation and Value Exclusion from Science -- 6.2 Why Fact/Value Separation Is Untenable: I Logical Grounds -- 6.3 Why Fact/Value Separation Is Untenable: II Practical Grounds -- 6.4 What Is Left of Value-Freedom -- 6.5 What It Means for the Working Scientists -- 7 Generalization and the Future -- 8 Cognitive Eschatology in C. S. Peirce -- 8.1 Actual vs. Putative -- 8.2 Long-Run Problems: I -- 8.3 Long-Run Problems: II -- 8.4 Explaining How It Is That Nature Is Cooperative -- 8.5 Peircean Idealism -- 8.6 The Possibility of Science -- 9 Reference Theory -- 9.1 Preliminaries: The Idea of Reference Space -- 9.2 Count Problems -- 9.3 Massaging Numbers.

9.4 Taxonomic Focusing -- 9.5 Logarithmic Reduction -- Name Index.