Introduction: The challenge of terminology

   1. Historical overview: The centrality of epistemology

         1. Premodernism

         2. Modernism and its six defining characteristics

                * Beginning with the finite 'I'
                * Epistemological certainty is both desirable and attainable
                * Foundationalism
                * The focus on method
                * The assumption of 'a-historical universality'
                * The rise of philosophical naturalism

         3. Postmodernism

                * Historical antecedents
                * Twentieth century contributions of Germans, French and Americans
                * The overthrow or the revision of the six characteristics of modernism

   2. Correlatives of Postmodernism

   3. The advantages of Postmodernism

    4. The weaknesses and dangers of Postmodernism