1. Introduction 2. What does Philosophy do? 2.1 Questions and their Presuppositions 2.2 The Philosopher as a Logical Detective 2.3 Different Ways of Looking at the World 2.4 Nothing Wrong with Science, the Problem is Scientism 2.5 No Contest Between the Manifest and the Scientific Image 2.
6 The Devil is in the Detail: Explanatory Pluralism, not Relativism 2.7 Why Philosophy Matters Even if it Bakes no Bread 3. Mind 3.1 The Telescopic View of the Mind and the Layered View of the Sciences 3.2 The Usual Non-Reductivist Suspects 3.3 The Bifurcated View of the Sciences and the Manifest Image of Mind 3.4 Working Within the Constraint that Philosophy Should Not Conflict with Science 3.5 Why Mind is Not Matter 4.
Action 4.1 The Kantian Antinomy of Freedom and Determinism 4.2 Rationalizations and Causal Explanations 4.3 Anomalous Monism and Anti-Causalism 4.4 Why Actions are not Events 5. History 5.1 The Historical and the Natural Past 5.2 How to Understand Other Minds Historically 5.
3 The Narrative Turn, Postmodernism and Re-enactment 5.4 Cultural Anthropology with Collingwood and Quine 5.5 Why the Past can be Known 6. The Nature/Culture Distinction 6.1 The Challenge of the Anthropocene 6.2 Just an Ideology for the Industrial Revolution? 6.3 Is the Nature/Culture Distinction Speciesist? 6.4 Historical and Chemical agents 6.
5 Why Defending the Nature Culture/Distinction Matters to the Environmental Crisis 7. Conclusion: Why Collingwood Matters Bibliography Index.