Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 An Approach to Philosophy -- 2 Philosophical Data -- 3 Some Objections Considered -- 4 Premature Speculations -- 5 A Minimum Philosophical Vocabulary -- Chapter I. The Direct Awareness of the Self -- 1 A Philosophical Question -- 2 Acquaintance: A Preliminary Statement -- 3 Self-Presenting States -- 4 Direct Acquaintance -- 5 Individuation Per Se -- 6 The Humean Tradition -- 7 The Kantian Considerations -- 8 Inner Perception -- Chapter II. Agency -- 1 'He Could Have Done Otherwise' -- 2 Some Unsatisfactory Answers -- 3 A Proposed Solution -- 4 Freedom and Indeterminism -- 5 The Agent as Cause -- 6 A Note on Deliberate Omission -- 7 Endeavouring -- 8 Purposive Activity -- 9 Some Further Philosophical Questions -- Chapter III. Identity through Time -- 1 The Ship of Theseus -- 2 Playing Loose with the 'Is' of Identity -- 3 An Interpretation of Bishop Butler's Theses -- 4 Feigning Identity -- 5 The Persistence of Persons through Time -- 6 'Will I Be He?': Truth-Conditions and Criteria -- Chapter IV. States of Affairs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Ontology of States of Affairs -- 3 Some Alternative Conceptions -- 4 Propositions -- 5 The Times and Places of States of Affairs -- 6 Events -- 7 Recurrence -- 8 Events as Coming into Being and Passing Away -- 9 De Re Explanation -- 10 Cause and Effect: De Dicto and De Re -- 11 Perception -- 12 Particular Occurrences -- 13 Individual Things -- Appendix -- A. The Doctrine of Temporal Parts -- 1 Temporal Parts -- 2 The Argument from Spatial Analogy -- 3 Phillip Drunk and Phillip Sober -- 4 Does the Doctrine Help Us? -- B. Mereological Essentialism -- 1 The Principle of Mereological Essentialism -- 2 Mereological Inessentialism -- 3 Other Possibilities.

4 Principles of Mereology -- 5 Mereological Change -- 6 The Problem of Increase -- C. The Objects of Belief and Endeavour -- 1 Introduction -- 2 De Dicto Belief and Endeavour -- 3 De Re Belief and Endeavour -- 4 Belief De Re as a Species of Belief De Dicto -- 5 A Note on 'Knowing Who' -- 6 Some Interrelations Between De Dicto and De Re -- D. Knowledge, Evidence and Reasonable Belief -- 1 Epistemic Preferability -- 2 The Certain and the Evident -- 3 The Directly Evident -- 4 Making Evident -- 5 Knowledge -- E. Summary of Definitions -- Notes -- Index.

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