CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
0.1. Protestant philosophical anthropology
0.2. Relation frames
0.3. Characters
0.4. Evolution and history of mankind
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Part I. Culture: What makes people different? |
1. LABOUR
1.1. Skills
1.2. Production and destiny of artifacts
1.3. Instruction
1.4. Cooperation
1.5. Public networks
1.6. History as the opening up of nature
1.7. Cultural mandate
2. PLAYING
2.1. Aesthetic experience
2.2. Art
2.3. The audience
2.4. Playing in a team
2.5. Festivals
2.6. Creative renewal
2.7. Cult
3. SPEAKING AND LISTENING
3.1. Signifying
3.2. The character of a language
3.3. Communication
3.4. Language community
3.5. Public opinion
3.6. Collective memory
3.7. Revelation
4. REASONING
4.1.1. Knowledge
4.1.2. Philosophical ethics
4.2. Proof
4.3. The character of a dialogue
4.4. Research institutes
4.5. Public research
4.6. Growing insight
4.7. Knowledge of God
5. BELIEVING
5.1. Trust
5.2. Contents of faith
5.3. Convincing
5.4. The church
5.5. The separation of church and state
5.6. Prophecy, reformation and revolution
5.7. Conversion
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Part II. Civilization: How should people deal with their differences? |
6. COMPANIONSHIP
6.1. Respect
6.2. Customs
6.3. Education
6.4. Clubs
6.5. Society
6.6. Integration and emancipation
6.7. Reverence
7. MUTUAL SERVICE
7.1. Possession
7.2. Contract, price, money and capital
7.3. Commerce
7.4. Responsible enterprise
7.5. The market
7.6. Differentiation
7.7. Discharging debts
8. LEADERSHIP
8.1. Politics
8.2. Ruling
8.3. Consulting and negotiating
8.4.1. The generic character of associations
8.4.2. The specific character of the republic
8.4. The policy of networks
8.5. War and peace
8.6. The ministry of all believers
9. JUSTICE
9.1 Judging
9.2 Richts and duties
9.3 Mediating and administering justice
9.4 The judiciary and the character of the constitutional state
9.4. Public justice
9.5. Sources of justice
9.6. Reconciliation
10. LOVING CARE
10.1 Vulnerability
10.2. Circumstances
10.3. Friendship and marriage
10.4. Institutes of care
10.5. Public care
10.6. Resurrection
10.7. Summary of the law
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Part III. History: Experimental philosophy, a case study |
11. ISOLATION OF A FIELD OF SCIENCE
11.1. Orientation
11.2. Isolation
11.3. What is electricity?
11.4. The separation of chemistry and thermal physics
11.5. Opening up after isolation
12. SEARCHING FOR OBJECTIVITY
12.1. Measurement
12.2. Fluid theories
12.3. The inverse-square law
12.4. Coulomb’s law
12.5. Mathematical fields
12.6. The discovery of the electric current
12.7. The Newtonian worldview
13. TECHNICAL PROGRESS
13.1. The steam age
13.2. Current and potential difference
13.3. Transformation and transport
13.4. Electric circuits
13.5. Practical philosophy
14. SEARCHING FOR UNIVERSAL LAWS
14.1. Newtonianism and anti-Newtonianism
14.2. Dissolution of the isolation
14.3. The law of conservation of energy
14.4. Physical fields
14.5. The electromagnetic field
14.6. From ether theories to relativity
14.7. The method of analogy
15. THE HIDDEN STRUCTURE OF MATTER
15.1. The electrical fluid
15.2. The abc of atomic theory: Avogadro, Berzelius, Clausius and
15.3. Conduction in an electrolyte
15.4. The discovery of the electron
15.5. The interaction of matter and field
15.6. The electromagnetic worldview
16. PHILOSOPHY OF EXPERIMENT
16.1. End of the mechanical worldview
16.2. Models and experiments
16.3. Experiments and natural laws
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Part IV. Evolution: Relations and characters in 20th-century science |
17. THEORY OF CHARACTERS
17.1 What is a character?
17.2 Six natural relation frames
17.3 Types of characters
17.4 Interlacement of characters
18. SETS
18.1 Sets and natural numbers
18.2 Extension of the quantitative relation frame
18.3 Groups as characters
18.4 Ensemble and probability
19. SYMMETRY
19.1 Spatial magnitudes and vectors
19.2. Character, transformation and symmetry of spatial figures
19.3. Non-Euclidean space-time in the theory of relativity
20. PERIODIC MOTION
20.1. Motion as a relation frameThe character of oscillations and waves
20.2. A wave packet as an aggregate
20.3. Symmetric and antisymmetric wave functions
21. PHYSICAL CHARACTERS
21.1. The unification of physical interactions
21.2. The character of electrons
21.3. The quantum ladder
21.4. Individualized currents
21.5. Aggregates
21.6. Coming into being, change and decay
22. BIOTIC CHARACTERS
22.1. The biotic relation frame
22.2. The organization of biochemical processes
22.3. The character of biotic processes
22.4. The secondary characteristic of organisms
22.5. Populations
22.6. The gene pool
22.7. Does a species correspond with a character?
23. INVENTORY OF BEHAVIOUR CHARACTERS
23.1. The primary characteristic of animals
23.2. Secondary characteristics of animals
23.3. Control processes
23.4. Controlled processes
23.5. Goal-directed behaviour
23.6. The position of mankind in the cosmos
Cited literature
Index of persons