Table of Contents

Part 1 Elements of insight: insight and discovery; inverse insight and the empirical residue. Part 2 Scientific insight: classical and statistical method; canons of scientific inquiry; the world-view of emergent probability; the understanding of development. Part 3 The method of metaphysics: judgement and fact; the self-affirming subject; the world as everything to be known; philosophy and the philosophies; elements of metaphysics. Part 4 The problem of interpretation: myth and mystery; objectivity in interpretation; canons of interpretations. Part 5 Practical reasoning: patterns of experience; the flight from insight, mental health and disease; the flight from insight, social progress and decline; the nature of God. Part 6 God and philosophy: summary of the argument; the existence of God; the practical problem of evil; understanding in search of faith; faith and humanism. Part 7 Lonergan and the problems of contemporary philosophy.