| Preface | |
| Ch. I | Epistemology's End | 3 |
| Quarry | 3 |
| Perfect Procedural Epistemology | 6 |
| Imperfect Procedural Epistemology | 10 |
| Pure Procedural Epistemology | 15 |
| Approach | 20 |
| Ch. II | The Failure of Foundationalism | 21 |
| Requirements | 21 |
| Blueprint | 24 |
| Strict Strictures | 30 |
| Lower Standards | 35 |
| Meaning | 40 |
| Causality | 47 |
| Subjunctive Support | 51 |
| Collapse | 57 |
| Ch. III | Knowledge by Consensus | 60 |
| The Social Construction of Knowledge | 60 |
| Games People Play | 61 |
| Playing for Real | 66 |
| The Inquiry Game | 70 |
| Puzzle Solving | 74 |
| Widening the Field | 79 |
| Diverging Paths | 84 |
| Normalizing Relations | 88 |
| Does Charity End at Home? | 91 |
| Summing Up | 93 |
| What We Do | 96 |
| Two Concepts of Rules | 98 |
| Ch. IV | The Merits of Equilibrium | 101 |
| Initial Tenability | 101 |
| Reflective Equilibrium | 106 |
| Going Public | 111 |
| Bootstrapping | 120 |
| Change in Focus: From Knowledge to Understanding | 122 |
| The Growth of Understanding | 129 |
| Judgment Calls | 134 |
| Deeper Conflicts | 138 |
| Restrictions on Relativism | 143 |
| Ch. V | The Heart Has Its Reasons | 146 |
| Feelings | 147 |
| Frames of Mind | 149 |
| Tenability | 156 |
| Emotional Honesty | 159 |
| Classification | 161 |
| Emotion and the Range of Epistemology | 167 |
| Ch. VI | Shifting Focus | 170 |
| Telling Instances | 171 |
| Learning from Examples | 178 |
| Fiction in Fact | 183 |
| Fiction's Feedback | 186 |
| What We Learn about What We Know | 189 |
| Getting Perspective | 192 |
| Tenable Fictions | 195 |
| Figurative Functions | 196 |
| Reconfiguration | 200 |
| Summing Up | 204 |
| Ch. VII | Epistemic Interdependence | 205 |
| Verstehen | 205 |
| Language | 208 |
| Indeterminacy | 214 |
| Index | 221 |
