Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242)
Introduction: you, me, Kant, and Carroll.The nonsense of Kant and Lewis Carroll -- A comparatist's risks and rewards -- A handful of rules against philosophical self-isolation -- What death makes of philosophy -- Keeping the world together -- The common universe of aesthetics -- Are the deaf and blind epistemologically isolated? -- Pain, cruelty, and pathology in art -- On the transparency and opacity of philosophers -- The three philosophical traditions -- Does philosophy progress? -- Nonutopian observations on Machiavellism -- On the nature and limits of ineffability -- Ineffabilities are the demons and angels of incompleteness and incompletability -- What can and cannot words express? -- The bird with bread in its beak -- You, me, and Kaufmann's discovering the mind.
