Ambitious book by David Chalmers arguing that all truths are a priori scrutable from a minimal base of physical, phenomenal, indexical, and that's-all truths.
Defends a neo-Fregean scrutability thesis — that a priori reasoning from a compact base can in principle determine all facts — reviving a form of Carnapian rational reconstruction without strict reductionism.
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