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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; I; II; III; Part I The subject broached: otherness, epistemology, and ethics; Chapter 1 George Eliot's hypothesis of reality; Part II Ethics without God, or, can ""is"" become ""ought""?; Chapter 2 Is life worth living?; Chapter 3 Ruskin and Darwin and the matter of matter; Chapter 4 Scientific discourse as an alternative to faith; Chapter 5 In defense of Positivism; Chapter 6 Why science isn't literature: the importance of differences; Part III Literature, secularity, and the quest for otherness; Chapter 7 Realism
Chapter 8 Dickens, secularism, and agencyChapter 9 The heartbeat of the squirrel; Chapter 10 Real toads in imaginary gardens, or vice versa; Epilogue; Index
