Preface
Introduction
I. The history of form philosophy: Wittgenstein’s
Tractatus (and an excursion to Kant’s Critique)
0. Overview of Wittgenstein's project
1. Represented form and content: ontology
2. Representing form and content: language
3. Representation
4. Meaning, possibility and truth.
5. From elementary to complex propositions
6. The limiting theses
7. The applications of the limiting theses
8. Excursion: Form philosophy in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
9. Conclusion to part I
II. Content and form
1. The possible-worlds interpretation of possibility .
2. Formal presuppositions of the possible-worlds interpretation
3. Against the distinction between individuals and universals
4. Content monism and form pluralism
5. Form and possibility
6. Different kinds of spaces of secondary contents .
7. Form, content and existence
8. Puzzles of existence
9. Form and time
10. Conclusion to part II
III. Content and representation
1. The phenomenon to be explained. .
2. The character of the content-content relation
3. Rule-following and the content-content relation
4. Straight or sceptical solutions to the rule-following problem?
5. Rules and the metaphysics of names.
6. The metaphysics of names rules identity
7. Consequences of the rule-conception of identity
8. Conclusion to part III
IV. Form, content and philosophy
1. Form and content
2. Consequences
3. Form and philosophy
Bibliography
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