| Chapter 1 | Introduction to Piaget's Metaphysical Theory | 1 |
| Initial Discoveries | 1 |
| Difficulties to be Overcome | 3 |
| Piaget meets Hegel's Absolute | 4 |
| Irreconcilable Motivations | 6 |
| A Fearsome, Pessimistic Theory | 7 |
| Prescription for Educational Disaster: Spontaneous Development | 12 |
| Logic as Operational Activity | 15 |
| Metaphysical Action versus Physical Action | 17 |
| An Alien View of Piaget | 21 |
| Why Piaget Cannot accept Natural Science | 23 |
| The Purpose of the Book | 24 |
| Piaget's Dual System | 25 |
| The Marvelous Monad | 26 |
| The Absolute Subject | 31 |
| Activities of the Absolute Subject | 36 |
| Chapter 2 | Piaget's Dual System | 43 |
| Piaget's Two Biologies | 43 |
| Two Kinds of Knowledge | 44 |
| A Multiplicity of Synonyms and Verbalisms | 46 |
| Two Minds | 49 |
| Another Kind of Atom | 53 |
| Another Kind of Space | 55 |
| The Living Structure Sans Heart Sans Brain | 56 |
| The Two Subjects | 58 |
| True Cause is Not Physical | 64 |
| An Alien Experience, An Alien Science | 65 |
| Spiritual Objects and Physical Objects | 68 |
| Two Kinds of Development | 69 |
| Psychological Necessity and Invariant Function versus Physical Biology | 70 |
| Specific Heredity versus General Heredity | 73 |
| Vicarious Actions and Functions Signify Dual Entities | 76 |
| Pure Movements or Actions Which do Not Take Time | 80 |
| Brainless Knowledge | 81 |
| A Non-Physical Ontogenetic Development | 82 |
| The Two Egos, The Two Worlds, The Two Societies and The Two Civilizations | 83 |
| Chapter 3 | The Marvelous Monad | 87 |
| In the Beginning was the Biological Organization of Monads | 87 |
| The Disingenuous Role of Experiment | 89 |
| The Purpose of The Physical Universe | 90 |
| The Two Starting Points | 90 |
| Hegel's Concept of Physical Existence | 92 |
| The Two "Initial" Structures | 92 |
| An Unusual Way to Describe Monads | 94 |
| Mischievous Fun With the Term "Psychology" | 94 |
| Why Piaget has the Duty to Prevaricate | 96 |
| The Other Meaning of Egocentrism | 97 |
| Lying is Good but Physical Knowledge is Bad | 99 |
| Piaget Rejects Natural Science | 100 |
| The Absolute Versus the Judeo-Christian God | 101 |
| The Creation of the Physical Universe | 102 |
| The Measurement of Assimilatory Progress | 104 |
| Piagetian Chemistry and Physics | 105 |
| Reaction of the Surrounding Medium | 107 |
| Natural Phenomena are Produced by Monads | 108 |
| Monads Account for Sight | 108 |
| Monads the Basis of Memory | 109 |
| Child Physics is Based on Monads | 110 |
| "Air" is Alive | 111 |
| All "Air" Belongs to the Same Being | 111 |
| "Air" is an All-Pervading Substance | 111 |
| Observation of a Physical Substance Cannot Lead to an Understanding of Metaphysical Substance | 112 |
| The Creation and Maintenance of Life is Based on "Air" | 113 |
| External and Internal Monads are Called the Two Motors | 113 |
| The Living Monads Account for Force and Ego | 114 |
| Monads the Basis of Thought and Dreams | 115 |
| Uses Air Again to Arrive at Quasimagic Substance | 116 |
| Immanent Monads Teach the Child About their "Atomic" Nature | 118 |
| Chapter 4 | The Absolute Subject | 123 |
| A Pathological Excess of Synonyms | 123 |
| Piaget is a Hegelian, not a Kantian | 123 |
| Piaget's Philosophy of a Non-Human Absolute | 127 |
| The Absolute Entity as Subject | 128 |
| Physical Experience versus Logico-Mathematical Experience | 130 |
| The Physical Subject versus the Metaphysical Subject | 132 |
| Formal Thought | 134 |
| The Absolute Entity as Immanent Subject | 136 |
| The Epistemological Subject | 138 |
| The Absolute Entity as Structure | 141 |
| Explicatory Function and Implicatory Function | 145 |
| Endogenous or Normative Structures versus Exogenous or Physical Structures | 147 |
| Form versus Matter | 149 |
| The Continuum of Unobservable Corpuscles | 151 |
| The Living Field or Lattice-Group of Monads | 152 |
| The Structure is Non-Contingent and Error Free | 154 |
| Piaget's Method of Proof: Use One Characteristic of His System to Prove Another Characteristic of His System | 155 |
| Genetic Psychology Describes the Development of an Eternal Structure | 157 |
| The Permanent Immanent Structure | 158 |
| The Absolute Entity as Space | 163 |
| The Structure and Functions of Space Depend Upon the Monads | 163 |
| Piaget Begins with Physical Shapes and Ends with Metaphysical Monads | 165 |
| The Spatial Container is the Operational Mind | 166 |
| The Spatial Continuum Produces Logico-Mathematical Operations | 168 |
| Physical Movement and Metaphysical Movement | 171 |
| Flavell's Rejection of Piaget's Metaphysical Psychology | 172 |
| The Permanent Immanent Space | 176 |
| Chapter 5 | Activities of the Absolute | 181 |
| Metaphysical Development | 181 |
| Physical Experiments are Intrinsically Invalid | 186 |
| The Stages of Metaphysical Development | 190 |
| A Survey of Various Ways Piaget Utilizes the Concept of Stage | 192 |
| The Six Stages in the Development of the Object Concept | 197 |
| The Six Stages in the Development of the Spatial Field and Groups | 200 |
| The Six Stages in the Development of Causality | 201 |
| The Six Stages in the Development of the Temporal Field | 203 |
| Conclusions Regarding the Four Sets of Six Stages | 204 |
| Overview of Developmental Stages | 204 |
| The Absolute Subject Develops Himself | 208 |
| Construction as Development of the Absolute Subject | 216 |
| Knowledge as the Developmental Process | 223 |
| Science as the Developmental Process | 231 |
| The Reversal of Reality | 240 |
| The Metaphysical Production of Numbers | 247 |
| The Metaphysical Origin of Fractions and Proportion | 252 |
| The Metaphysical-Physical Basis of Magic | 253 |
| Word Magic | 256 |
| The Mental Image as a Precursor of Magic | 257 |
| Magic as an Efficacious Reality | 259 |
| Piaget's Professional Output an Extended Work of Magic | 260 |
| Appendices | 263 |
| Appendix A | Form | 263 |
| Appendix B | Group | 266 |
| Appendix C | Schemata | 270 |
| Appendix D | Structure of Thought | 275 |
| Appendix E | Intelligence | 278 |
| Appendix F | System | 282 |
| Appendix G | Life | 284 |
| Appendix H | Self - Ego - I | 288 |
| Appendix I | Substance - Person | 294 |
| Appendix J | Totality - Whole - Universal | 298 |
| Appendix K | Organism - Organ | 302 |
| Appendix L | Organization | 304 |
| Appendix M | 306 |
| Bibliography | 313 |
| Index | 317 |
