The Significance of Indeterminacy: Perspectives from Asian and Continental Philosophy

Contents

• Introduction: The Emerging Philosophical Recognition of the Significance of Indeterminacy
• Gregory S. Moss and Robert H. Scott
• Part I: The Significance of Indeterminacy in German Idealism
• 1. Overdeterminacy, Affirming Indeterminacy, and the Dearth of Ontological Astonishment
• William Desmond
• 2. Determinacy, Indeterminacy, and Contingency in German Idealism
• G. Anthony Bruno
• 3. Free Thinking in Schelling's Erlangen Lectures
• Gregory S. Moss
• 4. Indeterminacy, Modality, Dialectics: Hegel on the Possibility Not to Be
• Nahum Brown
• Part II: The Significance of Indeterminacy for Phenomenology, Natural Science, and Ethics
• 5. Determinable Indeterminacy: A Note on the Phenomenology of Horizons
• Steven G. Crowell
• 6. Climate Science, Indeterminacy, and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Trish Glazebrook and Michael Goldsby
• 7. Genetic Phenomenology and the Indeterminacy of Racism
• Janet Donohoe
• 8. Indeterminacy as Key to a Phenomenological Reinterpretation of Aristotle's Intellectual Virtues
• Robert H. Scott
• 9. The Effability of the Normative
• Todd May
• Part III: The Significance of Indeterminacy for Hermeneutics and Aesthetics
• 10. Indeterminacy, Gadamer, and Jazz
• Bruce E. Benson
• 11. Hermeneutic Priority and Phenomenological Indeterminacy of Questioning
• Nathan Eric Dickman
• 12. Against the Darkness: Beauty and Indeterminacy in John Williams's Stoner
• Phillip E. Mitchell
• 13. Confidence without Certainty
• J. Aaron Simmons
• Part IV: Asian Perspectives and Cosmological Concerns
• 14. Heidegger and Dogen on the Ineffable
• Graham Priest and Filippo Casati
• 15. The Nietzschean Bodhisattva--Passionately Navigating Indeterminacy
• George Wrisley
• 16. Body and Intimate Caring in Confucian Ethics
• Qingjie James Wang
• 17. Indeterminacy in Chinese Thought: Spontaneity and the Dao
• Robert Neville
• 18. Cosmological Questions
• Ricki Bliss and Filippo Casati