Conquest of Abundance: a tale of abstraction versus the Richness

1. Achilles´ Conjecture 2. Xenophanes 3. Parmenides and the Logic of Being Interlude: On the Ambiguity of Interpretations 4. Brunelleschi and the Invention of Perspective Part Two: Essays on the Manuscript´s Themes 1. Realism and the Historicity of Knowledge 2. Has the Scientific View of the World a Special Status Compared with Other Views? 3. Quantum Theory and Our View of the World 4. Realism 5. Historical Comments on Realism 6. What Reality? 7. Aristotle 8. Art as a Product of Nature as a Work of Art 9. Ethics as a Measure of Scientific Truth 10. Universals as Tyrants and as Mediators 11. Intellectuals and the Facts of Life 12. Concerning an Appeal for Philosophy