Solipsism

Abstract: Introduction 1. Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts 2. Dangerous Confusion? Response to Ronald Dworkin 3. Freedom of Illocution? Response to Daniel Jacobson 4. Pornography's Authority? Response to Leslie Green 5. Pornography's Divine Command? Response to Judith Butler 6. Whose Right? Ronald Dworkin, Women, and Pornographers 7. Equality and Moralism: Response to Ronald Dworkin 8. Scorekeeping in a Pornographic Language Game 9. Duty and Desolation 10. Autonomy - Denial in Objectification 11. Projection and Objectification 12. Feminism in Epistemology: Exclusion and Objectification 13. Speaker's Freedom and Maker's Knowledge 14. Sexual Solipsism 15. Love and Solipsism Bibliography

Abstract: Preface. A Foreword in Three Acts. I: Images of Reality. 1. Biology of Perception. The representation of the world. We never see the same thing. A short skit. Decision against solipsism. 2. Facets of Truth. Truth means war. The hidden workings of nature. The ethical imperative. Loss of the archimedic point. The metaphor of the dance. 3. The Danger of the Label. Skeptical remarks on Constructivism. An attempt to get around the big words. 4. Explaining the Explanation. Cause and effect. Laws of people and laws of nature. Why Socrates had to die. Trivial and nontrivial machines. The interaction of nontrivial machines. II: Perspectives in Practice. 1. Teaching. The pupil as a nontrivial machine. "Tests test tests". From teacher to researcher. Outline of an experiment. 2. Psychotherapy. The distinction between sickness and health. Generating a new eigenbehavior. Learning to see white mice. 3. Management. Thus spake the hierarchy. Thinking heterarchically. The Battle of Midway. Principles of self-organization. 4. Communication. The world contains no information. Hermeneutics of the listener. Realities of the media. III: Cybernetics. The Fundamental Principle: Circularity. People and Machines. The Computer Metaphor of the Mind. Cybernetics of Cybernetics. We Do not See that We Do not See. All Cretans Lie. IV: Biographical Excursions. 1. Childhood and Youth. The world of Vienna. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Experiences of a magician. 2. The Second World War and the Post-war Period. Survival in Berlin, the capital of the Reich. As "Dr. Heinrich" on the radio. Collective guilt or individual responsibility. 3. A Jump to another World: America. Theory of memory. Beginnings of Cybernetics: The Macy Conferences. The Biological Computer Laboratory. V: Knowledge and Ethics. Ethics is not a Theory. Decidable and Undecidable Questions. Responsibility for the World. About the Authors.

Abstract: Preface 1 Introduction 3 Procedure and Object Immanent Critique Mediating the First Mathematicizaton Concept of Method Promoting the Subject Persistence as Truth The Elementary The Regressive Philosophy of Origins and Epistemology System and Debit Opposing Forces in Epistemology The Drive for System Doctrine of Antinomies Nominalism Motivation and Tendency of Ontology Illusory Concretization and Formalism New and Old 1 Critique of Logical Absolutism 41 Philosophy, Metaphysics and Science Contradiction in Scientificization Concept of Intuition Husserl s Scientism Dialectic in Spite of Itself A Head-Start for Science Realism in Logic The Logical In-Itself Presupposition of Logical Absolutism Essence and Development (Entfaltung) Calculators, Logic and Mechanics Reification of Logic The Logical 'Object' Autosemantic and Synsemantic Expressions Logical Laws and Laws of Thought Aporia of Logical Absolutism Relating Genesis and Validity Genesis and Psychology Thinking and Psychologism The Law of Non-Contradiction The Law of Identity Contingency Abandoning the Empirical Phenomenological and Eidetic Motifs 2 Species and Intention 89 Propositions in Themselves and Essences Lived Experience (Erlebnis) and 'Sense' Critique of Singular 'Senses' Origin of Essential Insight (Wesensschau) 'Ideational Abstraction' Abstraction and () The Primacy of Meaning Analysis (Bedeutungsanalyse) The Function of the Noema Noema and () Relation Between the Two Reductions Noema as Hybrid Essence and 'Factual States of Consciousness' Antinomy of Subjectivism and Eidetics 'Eidetic Variations' Essence as Fiction 3 Epistemological Concepts in Dialectic 124 Phenomenology as Epistemology Positivism and Platonism Husserl's Concept of Givenness 'Foundation' (Fundierung) Ontologization of the Factical Thing as Model of the Given Givenness Mediated in Itself The Subject of Givenness Paradoxia of Pure Intuition Matter as Fulfilment Sensation and Perception Antinomy of the Doctrine of Perception Sensation and Materialism Epistemology as Elementary Analysis 'Gestalt' Intentionality and Constitution Enter Noesis and Noema The Forgotten Synthesis Critique of Correlation Theory Pure Identity and Noematic Core The Primacy of Objectifying Acts Thing as Clue (Leitfaden) Antinomy of the Noema Critique Dismissed Antagonism to System Husserl's Transition to Transcendental Idealism Fragility of the System 4 Essence and Pure Ego 186 Husserl and his Successors Phenomenology Attempts to Break Out Self-Revocation Character of Immanence and the Fetishism of the Concept 'Attitude' (Einstellung) Fantasy and Body Categorial Intuition The Paradoxical Apex The Provenance of Logical Absolutism Fulfilment of Unsensed Moments 'Becoming Aware' (Gewahrwerdung) Motivation of Objectivism Withering Away of Argument Phenomenology as Philosophy of Reflection The System in Ruins Advanced and Restorative Elements Natural History Museum Abstract Ideal of Security Infinitization of the Temporal Origin of the Ego Consciousness, Pure Essence, Time Transcendental Ego and Facticity Equivocation of 'I' Solipsism The Aporia of Transcendental Experience The End of Idealism Translator's Note 235 Bibliographical Note 239 German-English Lexicon 242 Index 245