Contents for introduction to reformational philosophy

Here is the plan for the first three chapters. There may be changes as it develops and takes shape. I will add links back to here to help navigation through the sections.

Preface

Introduction

(1)   Philosophy and the richness of creation *

(2)   Philosophy and worldview

(3)   The cultural mandate

(4)   An ordered cosmos

(5)   Good and evil: Fall and redemption

(6)   Created reality as ‘subject’

(7)   Created reality as ‘meaning’

Further reading

What is philosophy?

(8)   The question “what is philosophy?”

(9)   Criticism and criteria

(10) Rational thinking

(11) Theory and abstraction

(12) No Archimedean point

(13) The character of philosophy

(14) Philosophy not neutral

Further reading

Understanding the cosmos

(15) Irreducible diversity

(16) The theory of modal spheres

(17) Basic features of the modal spheres

(18) Outline of the modal aspects

(19) Diversity and coherence between the modes

(20) What is Time?

(21) Time and the modal aspects

(22) Modal aspects as universal law spheres

(23) The subject-object relation

(24) Sensory perception

(25) Difference and connection between entities and aspects

(26) Idionomy

(27) Non-human subjects

(28) Encapsis

(29) Limits of theory

(30) Example: the limits of neuroscience

(31) What’s wrong with substance?

(32) The meaning of being human

(33) The structure of the human body

(34) We are not body and soul

(35) Faith and religion

(36) Faith and theology

(37) Philosophy andGod

Further reading

Understanding our Tasks

(38) History and human culture 
(39) Normative Disclosure