Preface; Chapter 1. Metaphysical Sense; World and Life; Sense and Meaningfulness; Sense, Success, and Satisfaction; The Metaphysical Kind of Sense; The Parmenidean Topic of Being; Metaphysical Sense and Meaningfulness; Chapter 2. Platonism; Being; Forms; Soul; Plato; Aristotle; Plotinus; Matter; Lessons of Platonism; Form, Matter, and Mind; Forms and Worldly Existents; Platonism and Meaningfulness; Chapter 3. Cartesianism; Cartesian Dualism; Spinozan Duality; Leibnizian Monadology; Monadology and Meaningfulness; Bergsonian Dualism; Bergsonism and Meaningfulness., Chapter 4. Centering and ExtendingThe Way In: Concepts of the Right Kind; The Proposal; A Note on Nonreductive Physicalism; A Note on Panexperientialist Physicalism; A Note on Deleuze and Guattari's Metaphysics; Chapter 5. Naturalism and Mind; Intentionality; Consciousness and Actuality; The Existence of Consciousness and Seeming; Consciousness and the Brain; The Causal Relevance of the Mental; The Causal; The Mental; Reasons as Causes; A Nonreductive Physicalist Model; Soul as Natural; Chapter 6. World Order; Richness, Complexity, and Organization; Levels of Being; The Harmony of the World., and Ultimate Sense and MeaningfulnessNotes; Works Cited; Index.
Summary
An original metaphysical proposal building on classical and contemporary sources.
