Metaphysics and Cognitive Science Alvin I Goldman

Part I What Might Be the Role of Cognitive Science in Metaphysics?

1. Time Lost, Time Regained

2. Cognitive Science and Metaphysics: Partners in Debunking

Part II Ethics and Cognitive Science

3. Moral Metaphysics, Moral Psychology, and the Cognitive Sciences

4. Debunking and Vindicating in Moral Psychology

Part III God and Cognitive Science

5. On Perceiving God: Prospects for a Cognitive Science of Religious Experience

6. God and Cognitive Science: A Bayesian Approach

Part IV Meaning, Linguistics, and Ontology

7. Cognitive Psychology and the Metaphysics of Meaning

8. Natural Language and Its Ontology

Part V Modality and the Ontology of Bodily Feelings

9. Modal Prospection

10. Against Phenomenal Parsimony: A Plea for Bodily Feelings

Part VI Sortals and Natural Kinds

11. Does the Identity of an Object Depend on Its Category? The Role of Sortals in Thought

12. What the Study of Psychological Essentialism May Reveal about the Natural World

Part VII Debunking and Cognitive Science

13. Debunking Arguments in Metaethics and Metaphysics

14. Cognitive Science for the Revisionary Metaphysician

15. Unbunking Arguments: A Case Study in Metaphysics and Cognitive Science