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Introduction | |
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Lectures | |
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What Is Philosophy? | |
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Deductive Arguments | |
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Inductive and Abductive Arguments | |
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Philosophy of Religion | |
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Aquinas' First Four Ways | |
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The Design Argument | |
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Evolution and Creationism | |
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Can Science Explain Everything? | |
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The Ontological Argument | |
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Is the Existence of God Testable? | |
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Pascal and Irrationality | |
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The Argument from Evil | |
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Readings | |
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Five Ways to Prove That God Exists | |
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The Design Argument | |
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Critique of the Design Argument | |
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The Ontological Argument | |
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The Will to Believe | |
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The Meaninglessness of Religious Discourse | |
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Defending Atheism | |
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Theory of Knowledge | |
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What Is Knowledge? | |
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Descartes' Foundationalism | |
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The Reliability Theory of Knowledge | |
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Justified Belief and Hume's Problem of Induction | |
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Can Hume's Skepticism Be Refuted? | |
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Beyond Foundationalism | |
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Readings | |
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Knowledge Is Something More than True Belief | |
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Meditations on First Philosophy | |
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Induction Cannot Be Rationally Justified | |
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Philosophy of Mind | |
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Lectures | |
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Dualism and the Mind/Body Problem | |
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Logical Behaviorism | |
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Methodological Behaviorism | |
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The Mind/Brain Identity Theory | |
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Functionalism | |
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Freedom, Determinism, and Causality | |
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A Menu of Positions on Free Will | |
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Compatibilism | |
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Psychological Egoism | |
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Readings | |
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Other Minds Are Known by Analogy from One's Own Case | |
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Mental Processes Are Physical | |
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Computing Machinery and Intelligence | |
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Of Liberty and Necessity | |
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Has the Self “Free Will?” | |
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Determinism Rules out Freedom | |
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Ethics | |
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Lectures | |
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Ethics—Normative and Meta | |
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The Is/Ought Gap and the Naturalistic Fallacy | |
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Observation and Explanation in Ethics | |
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Conventionalist Theories | |
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Utilitarianism | |
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Kant's Moral Theory | |
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Aristotle on the Good Life | |
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Readings | |
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Critique of the Divine Command Theory | |
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Existentialism | |
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Defense of Utilitarianism | |
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Ethics Founded on Reason | |
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Morality and Human Nature | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |