Table of contents
Acknowledgmentsix
Introduction
Part I: Discussing with oneself
1. Debating with myself and debating with others
2. Being in accordance with oneself: Moral self-controversy in Plato and Aristotle
3. Conversion and controversy
4. Controversies and the logic of scientific discovery
5. Controversies and dialogic intersubjectivity
6. Disagreement, self-agreement, and self-deception
Part II: The first person
7. Intersubjectivity in controversy: A story from the Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi
8. Subjectivist and objectivist interpretations of controversy-based thought
9. Temporality, reification and subjectivity: Carneades and the foundations of the world of subjectivity
10. First person singular in 17th century controversies
11. Subjective justifications: Introspective arguments in empiricism
12. Early modern controversies and theories of controversy: The rules of the game and the role of the persons
13. Externalism, internalism, and self-knowledge
Part III: The politics of subjectivity
14. Liberals vs. communitarians on the self
15. Ethical implications of de-dichotomization of identities in conflict
16. The role of subjectivity in public controversy
17. The Sokal affair: The role of subjectivity in shaping the controversy
18. Archaic subjectivity and/as controversy in psychoanalytic thinking
The contributors to this volume
Indexes
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