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Introduction | |
What Is Philosophy? | |
Deductive Arguments | |
Inductive and Abductive Arguments | |
Philosophy of Religion | |
Aquinas' First Four Ways | |
The Design Argument | |
Evolution and Creationism | |
Can Science Explain Everything? | |
The Ontological Argument | |
Is the Existence of God Testable? | |
Pascal and Irrationality | |
The Argument from EvilReadings | |
Five Ways to Prove That God Exists | |
The Design Argument | |
Critique of the Design Argument | |
The Ontological Argument | |
The Meaninglessness of Religious Discourse | |
Belief in God What Do You Have to Lose? Blaise Pascal | |
The Will to Believe | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Theory of Knowledge | |
What Is Knowledge? | |
Descartes' Foundationalism | |
The Reliability Theory of Knowledge | |
Justified Belief and Hume's Problem of Induction | |
Can Hume's Skepticism Be Refuted? | |
Beyond Foundationalism | |
Locke on the Existence of External ObjectsReadings | |
Meditations on First Philosophy | |
Induction Cannot Be Rationally Justified | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Philosophy of Mind | |
Dualism and the Mind/Body Problem | |
Logical Behaviorism | |
Methodological Behaviorism | |
The Mind/Brain Identity Theory | |
Functionalism | |
Freedom, Determinism, and Causality | |
A Menu of Positions on Free Will | |
Compatibilism | |
Psychological EgoismReadings | |
Other Minds Are Known by Analogy from One's Own Case | |
Is Consciousness a Brain Process? U.T. Place | |
Determinism Shows that Free Will is an Illusion Baron d'Holbach | |
Of Liberty and Necessity -- David Hume Has the Self "Free Will"? | |
What Motivates People to Act Justly? | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
ETHICS | |
Ethics Normative and Meta | |
The Is/Ought Gap and the Naturalistic Fallacy | |
Observation and Explanation in Ethics | |
Conventionalist Theories | |
Utilitarianism | |
Kant's Moral Theory | |
Aristotle on the Good LifeReadings | |
Existentialism | |
Defense of Utilitarianism | |
Ethics Founded on Reason | |
Morality and Human Nature | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Glossary | |
Index | |
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