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What is included with this book?
| Preface | |
| A Personal Word to the Student | |
| Introduction To Philosophy | |
| What Is Philosophy? | |
| A Little Bit of Logic | |
| Deductive and Inductive Reasoning | |
| Abductive Reasoning | |
| Some Applications | |
| Fallacies of Reasoning | |
| Box: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions | |
| The Beginning of Philosophy: The Ancient Greeks | |
| The Milesians | |
| Pythagoras | |
| The Eleatics | |
| Heracleitus | |
| The Pluralists: Empedocles and the Atomists | |
| Anaxagoras of Klazomenae | |
| The Rise of the Sophists and Socrates | |
| The Rise of the Sophists | |
| Socrates:The Father of Ethics? | |
| Knowledge Is Virtue | |
| Box: Plato | |
| Philosophy Of Religion | |
| The Value of Religion: An Introduction | |
| Terminology | |
| The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God: A First Cause | |
| Traditional Arguments for the Existence of God | |
| The Cosmological Argument | |
| The Argument from Contingency | |
| The Teleological Argument for the Existence of God | |
| Paley's Argument | |
| Hume's Critique | |
| The Darwinian Objection | |
| The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God | |
| The Argument from Religious Experience | |
| Encounters with God | |
| An Analysis of Religious Experience | |
| A Critique of the Strong-Justification Thesis | |
| The Problem of Evil | |
| The Mystery of Evil | |
| The Argument from Evil | |
| The Free-Will Defense | |
| The Theodicy Defense | |
| Evolution and Evil | |
| Faith and Reason | |
| Pragmatic Justification of Religious Belief | |
| Fideism: Faith Without/Against Reason | |
| Reformed Epistemology: Alvin Plantinga | |
| The Theory of Knowledge | |
| What Can We Know? An Introduction | |
| Knowledge and Its Types | |
| What Is Truth? Knowledge and Belief | |
| Types of Knowledge | |
| Skepticism | |
| The Challenge of Skepticism | |
| Perception: Can We Have Knowledge of the External World? | |
| Philosophy Of Mind | |
| The Mind-Body Problem | |
| Dualistic Interactionism | |
| A Critique of Dualistic Interactionism | |
| Dualism Revived | |
| Box: The Mind-Body Problem | |
| Materialist Monism | |
| Functionalism and Biological Naturalism | |
| Box: Intentionality | |
| Who Am I? | |
| The Problem of Personal Identity | |
| What Is It to Be a Person? | |
| What Is Identity? | |
| What Is Personal Identity? | |
| Is There Life After Death? | |
| Personal Identity and Immortality | |
| Box: Reincarnation | |
| Freedom Of The Will and Determinism | |
| Determinism | |
| Universal Causality | |
| Teleological Determinism | |
| Libertarianism | |
| The Argument from Deliberation | |
| The Argument from Moral Responsibility | |
| Compatibilism: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too | |
| A Reconciling Project | |
| A Critique of Compatibilism: A "Quagmire of Evasion"? The Argument Against Compatibilism from Moral Responsibility | |
| The Compatibilist Response | |
| Ethics | |
| What Is Ethics? Why Do We Need Morality? The Purposes of Morality | |
| Ethical Relativism Versus Ethical Objectivism | |
| An Analysis of Ethical Relativism | |
| Subjective Ethical Relativism (Subjectivism) | |
| Conventional Ethical Relativism (Conventionalism) | |
| The Case for Ethical Objectivism | |
| Egoism, Self-Love, and Altruism | |
| Arguments for Ethical Egoism | |
| Arguments Against Ethical Egoism | |
| Evolution and Altruism | |
| Utilitarianism and the Structure of Ethics | |
| What Is Utilitarianism? The Strengths and Weaknesses of Utilitarianism | |
| Utilitarian Reponses to the Standard Objections | |
| Kantian Deontological Ethics | |
| Immanuel Kant's Rationalist Deontological System | |
| The Goodwill | |
| Duty and the Moral Law | |
| Kant's Second Formulation of the Categorical Imperative | |
| The Principle of Autonomy | |
| Virtue Ethics | |
| Religion and Ethics | |
| Does Morality Depend on Religion? Is Religion Irrelevant or Even Inimical to Morality? Does Religion Enhance the Moral Life? | |
| Existentialism and The Meaning Of Life | |
| Existentialism and the Meaning of Life | |
| The Meaning of Life and the Fear of Death | |
| Appendix: How to Read and Write a Philosophy Paper | |
| Glossary | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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