The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes

Mortimer J. Adler

1967

• Title Page
• Contents
• Author's Preface
• Introduction by Deal W. Hudson
• Preface

PART I: THE MODES OF DIFFERENCE

• Chapter 1:
  The Question About Man
• Chapter 2:
  The Possible Answers
• Chapter 3:
  The State of the Question, Past, Present, and Future

PART II: THE DIFFERENCE OF MAN

• Chapter 4:
  The Philosophers Give All the Answers and Establish None
• Chapter 5:
  Why Darwin Answered the Question As He Did
• Chapter 6:
  The Line Drawn by the Fossils
• Chapter 7:
  The Laboratory Findings and Their Interpretation
• Chapter 8:
  The Pivotal Fact: Human Speech
• Chapter 9:
  The Pivotal Issue: Language and Thought
• Chapter 10:
  Resolution of the Pivotal Issue -- (I): The Negative Argument
• Chapter 11:
  Resolution of the Pivotal Issue -- (II) The Positive Argument
• Chapter 12:
  The Efforts of the Philosophers to Resolve the One Issue That Remains
• Chapter 13:
  The Three Prongs of the Cartesian Challenge
• Chapter 14:
  The Third Prong: From Descartes to Turing
• Chapter 15:
  The Future Resolution of the One Remaining Issue

PART III: THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES

• Chapter 16:
  To Whom It Makes a Difference
• Chapter 17:
  The Consequences for Action
• Chapter 18:
  The Consequences for Thought

• Notes
• References
• Index of Proper Names