Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface for the new paperback edition -- Foreword -- Part One Wittgenstein and the Concept of Human Knowledge -- I Criteria and Judgment -- II Criteria and Skepticism -- III Austin and Examples -- IV What a Thing Is (Called) -- V Natural and Conventional -- Part Two Skepticism and the Existence of the World -- VI The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Opening -- VII Excursus on Wittgenstein's Vision of Language -- VIII The Quest of Traditional Epistemology: Closing -- Part Three Knowledge and the Concept of Morality -- IX Knowledge and the Basis of Morality -- X An Absence of Morality -- XI Rules and Reasons -- XII The Autonomy of Morals -- Part Four Skepticism and the Problem of Others -- XIII Between Acknowledgment and Avoidance -- The parable of the boiling pot -- The private language argument -- The allegory of words -- interpretation -- seeing something as something -- Seeing human beings as human beings -- Embryos -- Slaves -- Soul-blindness -- The human guise -- Knower and known -- My relations to myself -- Believing something and believing someone -- Believing myself -- Arguments from analogy and from design -- Frog body and frog soul -- Am I, or am I in, my body? Intactness and connection -- Statues and dolls -- Perfecting an automaton -- Feelings and "feelings" -- The ordonnance of the body -- wonder vs. amazement -- The Polonius of the problem of others -- The Outsider -- The concept of horror -- of the monstrous -- The (active) skeptical recital concerning other minds -- Empathic projection -- The seamlessness of projection -- The question of a "best case" for others -- Confinement and exposure in knowing -- Toward others we live our skepticism -- Suspicion of unrestricted owing as pathological, adolescent, or romantic.

The representative case for other minds is not defined by the generic -- The passive skeptical recital concerning other minds -- Skepticism and sanity again -- Asymmetries between the two directions of skepticism -- Dr. Faust and Dr. Frankenstein -- Passiveness and activeness -- the Friend and the Confessor -- The extraordinariness of the ordinary -- romanticism -- Narcissism -- Proving the existence of the human -- The vanishing of the human -- The question of the history of the problem of others: -- 1. Distinctions of madness -- 2. The other as replacement of God -- 3. Blake and the sufficiency of finitude -- 4. The science and the magic of the human -- 5. Literature as the knowledge of the Outsider -- Unrestricted acknowledgment -- the Outcast -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Passages Cited from Philosophical Investigations.