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CONTENTS Preface Introduction Part 1 In Search of the Transcendental Elements of Human Knowledge The Non-Rational and Non-Empirical Elements in Rational/Empirical Knowledge Chapter 1 The Composite Nature of Knowledge The Conceptual Foundations of Science Establishing Facts The Theorem of the Threefold Basis of Knowledge The Transformation of Hume’s Problem by the Involvement of the Self-Conscious Mind Transcendental Knowledge Part 2 In Search of Transcendental Physical Reality The Non-Material, Non-Real, Non-Local, and Mind-like Components of Physical Reality Chapter 2 The Wave-Particle Duality Waves and Particles The Conceptual Consequences Transcendental Reality 1SCHÄFER_PAGES:SCHÄFER PAGES 4/29/10 11:14 AM Page ix Part 3 In Search of Transcendental Human Nature The Non-Mechanical Aspects of Living Machines Chapter 3 The Human Mystery The Argument from Evolution The Argument from Popper’s Three-Worlds Hypothesis The Argument from the Creation of a Self The Argument from the Mystery of Conscious Perception Chapter 4 Chance and Necessity Tradition of Objectivity Versus Tradition of Purpose The Laws of Physics and Chemistry Against Eccles’ Argument from Evolution Against Eccles’ Argument from the Creation of Self Rejecting the Animist Covenant Part 4 Divine Reality Chapter 5 The Importance of the Self-Conscious Mind The Interaction of Mind and Matter: Information as a Causal Agent The Importance of the Self-Conscious Mind as a Basis for Knowledge The Opening of the Universe 1SCHÄFER_PAGES:SCHÄFER PAGES 4/29/10 11:14 AM Page x [3.12.71.237] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 04:17 GMT) Chapter 6 Healing the Wound Objective Knowledge in a Life with Values The Significance of the Epistemological Paradox The Self-Conscious Mind as the Basis of Ethics On the Foundations of Ethics in the Mind-like Order of the Universe The Transformation of Hume’s Fundamental Problem of Ethics The Restoration of the Covenant Epilogue On the Foundations of Metaphysics in the Mind-like Background of Physical Reality Appendices . The Illegitimate Components of Knowledge . The Failure of Intuition . Some Aspects of Causality . Science and the Humanities . Popper’s Logic of Science . Some Properties of Waves and Particles . Schrödinger’s Wave Mechanics . The Meaning of Ψ . Empty Atoms as Platonic Forms . Some Aspects of the Nature of Quantum States . Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle . The Surrealism of Superpositions of States: The Case of Schrödinger’s Cat . The Pauli Principle . The EPR Paradox . The Non-Locality of the Universe . Some Technical Details Concerning Bell’s Theorem 1SCHÄFER_PAGES:SCHÄFER PAGES 4/29/10 11:14 AM Page xi . The Emergence of Historical Philosophical Views in Quantum Ontology . Defining a Realistic View of the World References Index 1SCHÄFER_PAGES:SCHÄFER PAGES 4/29/10 11:14 AM Page xii ...