What may seem like confidence when someone is over-assertive may actually be based on the doubt that arises from conflict.

Truth is unattainable and we should not relativise its meaning to make it so. However, truth is still a meaningful concept for us and can be a regulatory idea or an archetype.

This section discusses a selection of cognitive biases – distortions to our judgement identified by empirical psychology – and relates them to metaphysics.

This gives a fairly detailed account of the problems with metaphysics, which are not only due to its separation from all evidence, but also its psychological effects.

How belief (like desire and meaning) can be integrated, not just through having more coherent beliefs but also by recognising that they might be wrong.

How practice can help to integrate meaning.

An introduction to archetypes. What Jung calls ‘resolved’ archetypes are also integrated ones.

How meanings can be fragmented just as desires can be in conflict, and how they can also be integrated.

Continues the criticism of representationalism, showing its link to metaphysics. Discussion of the way this blocks understanding of the objectivity of emotion.

Explains some of the negative effects of representationalism (the traditional theory of meaning that is not embodied) on philosophy, religion and ritual.