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- Introduction: The European Context
- I. Biran’s Immediate Background
- Life and Works
- The Immediate Philosophical Background
- II. Discovering the Nature of Experience
- Biran
- Biran vs. Locke
- III. The Experience of Personal Identitiy
- Hume
- Biran
- IV. Causation As Expectation or As Volitional Force
- Causation Between Two Perceived Entities
- The Causal Force of Unperceived Entities
- V. Biran’s Defense of Human Liberty
- Hume vs. Biran on Liberty and Necessity
- Biran vs. Locke on Liberty
- VI. Berkeley and Biran—Allies and Opponents
- The Analysis of Experience
- Personal Identity
- Causation
- Liberty
- Conclusion: Biran’s Limitations and Contributions
- Biran’s Injustices to the Empiricists
- The Limitations Biran’s Philosophy
- Biran’s Importance
- Appendix: Biran’s English and American Critics
- Notes
- Index