The Philosophy of Exemplarity : Singularity, Particularity, and Self-Reference (Paperback)

Part 1 Preface and Introduction

1.1 Methodology: Singularity, Particularity, Self-Reference

1.2 Terminology of Exemplarity: Example, Exemplar, Paradigm

Part 2 The Life Cycle of a Paradigm

2.1 Singularity: Introducing a Paradigm

2.2 Particularity and Universality: How Paradigms Are Applied

2.3 Self-Reference: The Logic of Exemplarity and the Paradigm Paradox

Part 3 Examples of Exemplarity

3.1 Plato: Forms as Standards

3.2 Kant: Reflective Judgment

3.3 Hegel: Particularity as Exemplarity

3.4 Kuhn’s Paradigms

Part 4 Conclusion: Exemplarity as an Example-Exemplar