James Blachowicz is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Analysis and Holism.- Part I: METAPHYSICS.- Chapter 2: Reductionism and Emergence.- Chapter 3: Purely Physical Emergence.- Chapter 4: Protective Enclosures and the Emergence of Life.- Chapter 5 :Virtual Reality and the Emergence of Mind.- Chapter 6: Physics and Theology: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?.- PART II: EPISTEMOLOGY.- Chapter 7: Inter-Hemispheric Dialogue.- Chapter 8: One Method for All Inquiry.- PART III: MORAL and POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.- Chapter 9: Morality and the Rational Control of Desire.- Chapter 10: Freud and the Physics of Civilization.- Chapter 11: Hemispheric Politics.- PART IV: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION and NATURAL THEOLOGY.- Chapter 12: Archaic and Modern Religious Ontologies.- Chapter 13: An Empty Holy of Holies.- PART V: ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHY.- Chapter 14: Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy.