Hegel and the Problem of Beginning

Robb Dunphy is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg. He has previously held research fellowships at the Goethe University Frankfurt, University College Dublin, and the University of Hamburg, and has taught philosophy at Northeastern University London, the University of Winchester, and the University of Sussex. His primary research interests are in the theoretical philosophy of Kant and the German Idealists and in the history of scepticism. He is the co-editor of Metaphysics as a Science in Classical German Philosophy and has published research articles in journals including Apeiron, The Review of Metaphysics, the Hegel Bulletin, and Logos and Episteme.

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Introduction: With What Must the Beginning of the Science be Made?

0.0 Introduction

0.1 Hegel’s Logic and its Beginning

0.2 Hegel and Pyrrhonian Scepticism

0.3 A Brief Précis of “With what must the beginning of the science be made?”

0.4 Conclusion

Chapter 1: Hegel and Pyrrhonian Scepticism

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Sextus’ Account of Pyrrhonism

1.2 Hegel and Pyrrhonism

1.3 Conclusion

Chapter 2: A Short History of the Problem of Beginning

2.0 Introduction

2.1 The Objective and the Subjective Beginning

2.2 The Methodological Beginning

2.3 The Modern Problem of Beginning

2.4 Hegel on First Principles and the Beginning

2.5 Conclusion

Chapter 3: The Problem of Beginning

3.0 Introduction

3.1 The Problem of Beginning: Preliminary Investigation

3.2 The Problem of Beginning as an Agrippan Problem

3.3 The Solution to the Problem of Beginning

3.4 Alternatives Criticised, Objections Anticipated

3.5 Conclusion

Chapter 4: Mediation I: Phenomenology

4.0 Introduction

4.1 The Phenomenology and the Beginning of the Logic

4.2 Some Problems

4.3 Conclusion

Chapter 5: Mediation II: Completed Scepticism

5.0 Introduction

5.1 A Third Solution?

5.2 Completed Scepticism

5.3 Conclusion

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Index