Description: I: Witches and Witch-Hunters.- 1. Two Stories About Evil: Christianity and the Creation of Witches.- 2. The Tamblyn Lectures: DE PRAESTIGIIS DAEMONUM: Early Modern Witchcraft: Some Philosophical Reflections.- II: Philosophy and Science From Leibniz to Kant.- 3. Leibniz' Monads: A Heritage of Gnosticism and a Source of Rational Science.- 4. Rationalism in Modern Science: d'Alembert and the "esprit simpliste".- 5. Hume's Scepticism.- 6. Husserl's Critique of Hume's Notion of Distinctions of Reason.- 7. The Role of Arational Factors in Interpretive History: The Case of Kant and ESP.- 8. Kant's Theory of Musical Sound: An Early Exercise in Cognitive Science.- 9. Kant's Dialectic and the Logic of Illusion.- III: Twentieth Century Philosophy of Science.- 10. The Hypothetico-Deductive Model of Scientific Theories: A Sympathetic Disclaimer.- 11. Methodology and the Functional Identity of Science and Philosophy.- 12. Sciences and Pseudosciences: An Attempt at a New Form of Demarcation.- 13. The Reception of German Scientific Philosophy in North America: 1930-1962.

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