- I. The Bounds of Judgment
- Introduction to Part I: Basic Necessities (or: The Shape of Thought) [Charles Travis and Sofia Miguens]
- The Search for Logically Alien Thought: Descartes, Kant, Frege, and the Tractatus [James Conant]
- What Descartes Ought to Have Thought about Modality [A. W. Moore]
- Kant on Logic and the Laws of the Understanding [Matthew Boyle]
- Cartesian Skepticism, Kantian Skepticism, and Two Conceptions of Self-Consciousness [Arata Hamawaki]
- Logical Aliens and the “Ground” of Logical Necessity [Barry Stroud]
- Varieties of Alien Thought [Peter Sullivan]
- Wittgenstein on Using Language and Playing Chess: The Breakdown of an Analogy and Its Consequences [Martin Gustafsson]
- Where Words Fail [Charles Travis]
- Alien Meaning and Alienated Meaning [Jocelyn Benoist]
- II. The Logical Alien Revisited: Afterthoughts and Responses
- Introduction to Part II: On How History of Philosophy Can Be Illuminating [Sofia Miguens]
- Replies [James Conant]
- Section I: Who Is the Author of These Afterthoughts and Responses?
- Section II: A History of Philosophy That Challenges Contemporary Preconceptions
- Section III: Some Aspects of Conant’s Version of the History
- Section IV: Theological Sources of Modern Conceptions of Logic
- Section V: Leibnizian versus Kantian Conceptions of Logic
- Section VI: A Resolute Reading of Descartes
- Section VII: Reply to Moore: Descartes on the Relation of the Possible to the Actual
- Section VIII: Reply to Boyle: Kant on the Relation of a Rational Capacity to Its Acts
- Section IX: Reply to Hamawaki: On the Relation of Cartesian to Kantian Skepticism and the Relation of Consciousness to Self-Consciousness
- Section X: Reply to Hamawaki and Stroud on Transcendental Arguments, Idealism, and the Kantian Solution of the Problem of Philosophy
- Section XI: Reply to Stroud on Kant and Frege: On the Relation of Thought to Judgment
- Section XII: Reply to Sullivan: Frege on the Priority of Logic to Everything
- Section XIII: Reply to Gustafsson: Wittgenstein on the Relation of Sign to Symbol
- Section XIV: Reply to Travis: Wittgenstein on the Non-Relation of Thinking to Being
- Section XV: Reply to Benoist: Wittgenstein on the Relation of Language to Life
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
The Logical Alien
Conant and His Critics
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