Preface.
Introduction.

Part I: The Task of Philosophy:.

The Erotetic Nature of Philosophy: Philosophy as a Cognitive Enterprise.

The Need for Philosophy: Humans as Homo Quaerens.

Rationality is the Instrument of Philosophy.

Philosophy as Truth Estimation.

The Data of Philosophy.

Metaphilosophical Issues.

Part II: Philosophizing as an Erotetic Enterprise: The Dialectic of Question and Answer:.

Questions and their Presuppositions: Issues Regarding the Legitimacy of Questions.

Question Dynamics: Kant s Principle of Question Propagation and the Dialectical Exfoliation of Questions.

Philosophy as a Venture in Erotetic Dialectic.

Philosophical Assessment.

Part III: What s on the Agenda?:.

Unexamined Issues and Agenda Formation.

The Recent Scene.

Metaphilosophy a Part of Philosophy Itself.

The Political Dimension: A Struggle for Ownership.

The Systemic Dimension.

Part IV: Philosophical Discourse:.

The Narrative Dimension of Philosophy.

The Method of Philosophy: Truth-Estimative Conjecture.

Ongoing Explanation.

Historical Unity of Philosophy.

The Data of Philosophy.

Part V: Interpreting Philosophical Texts:.

Setting the Stage: Deconstructionism.

Exegetical Interpretation.

Why Philosophical Texts Need Interpretation.

The Principle of Contextuality-Context Coherence as an Interpretative Standard.

The First Law.

The Second Law.

The Third Law.

The Fourth Law.

Part VI: Rhetoric And Rational Argumentation:.

Rhetoric Versus Argumentation: The General Situation.

An Uneasy Union.

The Special Case of Philosophy.

Philosophy s Data: The Source of Plausibility.

Part VII: Philosophical Aporetics:.

The Pervasiveness of Apories.

Aporetic Antinomies Structure the Issues.

Part VIII: The Economic Dimension of Philosophical Inquiry:.

Plausibility as a Guide to Issues of Precedence and Priority.

Cost Effectiveness as a Salient Aspect of Rationality.

Unacceptable Price Argumentation in Philosophy.

Part IX: The Impact of Distinctions:.

The Role of Distinctions.

Dialectic Development via Distinctions.

Developmental Dialectics.

Part X: Inference to the Best Explanation and its Problems:.

Difficulties with Inference to the Best Explanation.

Best Systematization as a Viable Alternative.

Part XI: The Coherentist Criteriology of Truth as a Philosophical Method:.

Coherentism in Philosophy.

How Context Helps via Local Appropriateness.

Philosophical Coherentism is Self Sustaining.

Part XII: Why Philosophizing Must Be Systematic: The Holistic Nature of Philosophy:.

Externalities and Negative Side Effects.

Systematic Interconnectedness as a Consequence of Aporetic Complexity.

Local Minimalism versus Global Optimalism.

Why Not Simply "Live With Inconsistency?" The Imperative of Cognitive Rationality.

The Methodological Rationale of Systematicity in Philosophy.

Part XIII: Systematization as an Instrument of Inquiry:.

Hierarchical Systematization: The Euclidean Model of Knowledge.

Systematicity and the Impetus to Coherence: The Network Model.

On the Advantages of a Network Model.

The Pivotal Role of Data for a Coherentist Truth-Criteriology.

Coherentism s Exploitation of the Parameters of Systematicity.

Systematization as Truth Criterion: The Hegelian Inversion.

Part XIV: Developmental Dialectics and Complexity:.

Spencer s Law: The Dynamics of Cognitive Complexity.

The Methodological Status of Simplicity-Preference: Systematicity, Economy, and the Principle of Least Effort.

Perennial Philosophy.

Rational Dialectic in Philosophy.

Part XV: Counterfactual Reasoning as a Philosophical Instrument:.

Historical Stagesetting.

Belief-Contravening Supposition: How Apories Arise in Hypothetical Contexts.

The Centrality of Precedence (Right of Way).

Logic as Such Does Not Resolve Matters.

Reductio Ad Absurdum Argumentation.

Evidential Contexts