Contents -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 IS PHILOSOPHY DISPENSABLE? (AN APORETIC ANALYSIS) -- Chapter 2 FIRST PRINCIPLES AND THEIR PLACE IN PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter 3 THE HUME-EDWARDS PRINCIPLE AND ITS PROBLEMS -- Chapter 4 THE LIMITS OF NATURALISM (NATURE AND CULTURE IN PERSPECTIVAL DUALITY) -- Chapter 5 ON UNIVERSALS, NATURAL KINDS, AND LAWS OF NATURE -- Chapter 6 AQUINAS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF EPISTEMIC DISPARITY -- Chapter 7 SELF-SUBSTANTIATING STATEMENTS -- Chapter 8 REGRET -- Chapter 9 THE PROBLEM OF EVIL -- Chapter 10 RATIONALITY, SELF-INTEREST, ALTRUISM, AND OBLIGATION -- Chapter 11 WHAT IS PRAGMATISM? -- Chapter 12 THE TRANSFORMATION OFAMERICAN PHILOSOPHY -- NAME INDEX.