Constructing the world / David J. Chalmers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-483) and index.

Scrutability and the Aufbau -- First excursus: Scrutability and knowability -- Second excursus: The inscrutability of reference and the scrutability of truth -- Varieties of scrutability -- Third excursus: Sentential and propositional scrutability -- Fourth excursus: Warrants and support structures -- Fifth excursus: Insulated idealization and the problem of self-doubt -- Adventure with a cosmoscope -- Sixth excursus: Totality truths and indexical truths -- The case for A priori scrutability -- Seventh excursus: Varieties of Apriority -- Eighth excursus: Recent challenges to the A priori -- Revisability and conceptual change -- Ninth excursus: Scrutability and conceptual dynamics -- Tenth excursus: Constructing epistemic space -- Eleventh excursus: constructing Fregean senses -- Hard cases -- Twelfth excursus: Scrutability and the unity of science -- Minimizing the base -- Thirteenth excursus: From the Aufbau to the Canberra Plan -- Fourteenth excursus: Epistemic rigidity and super-rigidity -- The structure of the world -- Summation: Whither the Aufbau? -- Fifteenth excursus: The structuralist response to skepticism -- Sixteenth excursus: Scrutability, supervenience, and grounding -- Seventeenth excursus: Explaining scrutability -- Glossary.

David J. Chalmers constructs a highly ambitious and original picture of the world, from a few basic elements. He returns to Rudolf Carnap's attempt to do the same, and adopts the idea of scrutability - to address central themes in philosophy.--