| Preface | p. v |
| Introduction | p. vii |
| Religion and the Meaning of Life | p. 1 |
| Does Religion Give My Life Meaning? | p. 2 |
| Religion Reconsidered | p. 4 |
| Some Important Buddhist Doctrines | p. 7 |
| Many Paths to the Same Summit | p. 17 |
| A Taoist View of the Universe | p. 18 |
| God and Gods in Africa | p. 20 |
| Why I Am Not a Christian | p. 22 |
| God is Dead | p. 30 |
| The Anti-christ | p. 31 |
| The Image of God's Goodness | p. 33 |
| Love as the Practice of Freedom | p. 35 |
| Memorial Service | p. 40 |
| The Absurd | p. 41 |
| The Internet as Metaphor for God? | p. 45 |
| How Do I Know Whether God Exists? | p. 49 |
| Faith and Reason | p. 52 |
| The Ontological Argument | p. 53 |
| Whether God Exists | p. 55 |
| The Teleological Argument | p. 57 |
| Why Does God Let People Suffer? | p. 60 |
| Rebellion | p. 64 |
| The Leap of Faith and the Limits of Reason | p. 67 |
| The Will To Believe | p. 70 |
| I'm No Believer | p. 74 |
| Gods | p. 77 |
| Science, Mind, and Nature | p. 79 |
| What Does Science Tell Me About the World? | p. 80 |
| The Deductive-Nomological Model of Science | p. 83 |
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | p. 90 |
| Science: Conjectures and Refutations | p. 98 |
| Feminism and Science | p. 106 |
| Seeking New Laws of Nature | p. 113 |
| Gravity | p. 120 |
| Which Should I Believe: Darwin or Genesis? | p. 122 |
| Genesis | p. 126 |
| The Descent of Man | p. 128 |
| Creationist Science and Education | p. 133 |
| Against Creationism | p. 143 |
| Is Evolutionary Theory a Secular Religion? | p. 154 |
| How Is My Mind Connected to My Body? | p. 164 |
| Mind as Distinct From Body | p. 168 |
| The Concept of Mind | p. 172 |
| Robots and Minds | p. 180 |
| The Myth of the Computer | p. 186 |
| Woman as Body | p. 192 |
| The Mysterious Flame | p. 201 |
| Thinking and Knowing | p. 215 |
| What Do I Know? | p. 216 |
| The Myth of the Cave | p. 219 |
| Meditation | p. 221 |
| Descartes' Evil Genius | p. 225 |
| Knowledge Regained | p. 232 |
| Through the Looking Glass | p. 235 |
| The Circular Ruins | p. 236 |
| Appearance and Reality | p. 239 |
| Where Our Ideas Come From | p. 241 |
| To Be Is to Be Perceived | p. 245 |
| The Sex of the Knower | p. 250 |
| Does Language Make Me Think the Way I Do? | p. 255 |
| Getting Rid of Words | p. 258 |
| Meaning as Use | p. 259 |
| Language, Thought, and Reality | p. 265 |
| Newspeak | p. 274 |
| The Language Instinct | p. 276 |
| How Words Hurt | p. 286 |
| Communication and Consciousness | p. 292 |
| Humpty Dumpty | p. 294 |
| The Dilemas of Personhood | p. 297 |
| Who Am I? | p. 298 |
| The First Night | p. 301 |
| Of Identity and Diversity | p. 315 |
| Of Personal Identity | p. 320 |
| Persons, Brains, and Bodies | p. 323 |
| How To Build a Person | p. 325 |
| I Am a Woman | p. 332 |
| "But What Are You Really?": The Metaphysics of Race | p. 337 |
| Bad Copies: How Popular Media Represent Cloning as an Ethical Problem | p. 349 |
| Genetic Encores: The Ethics of Human Cloning | p. 357 |
| To Clone or Not to Clone | p. 364 |
| Why Are My Emotions Important to Me? | p. 369 |
| On Anger | p. 372 |
| The Passions of the Soul | p. 375 |
| On Pride | p. 378 |
| What Is an Emotion | p. 381 |
| Emotions as Transformations of the World | p. 386 |
| Uncivil Rites--The Cultural Rules of Anger | p. 388 |
| Two Speeches on Love | p. 391 |
| What Love Is | p. 395 |
| Feminism, Feelings, and Philosophy | p. 399 |
| How Should I Feel About Abortion and Embryo Research? | p. 405 |
| The Abortion | p. 409 |
| A Defense of Abortion | p. 410 |
| Abortion Through a Feminist Lens | p. 421 |
| Right to Life: What Can the White Man Say to the Black Woman? | p. 426 |
| The Moral Duty to the Unborn and Its Significance | p. 429 |
| Stem Cells, Cloning, and Abortion: Making Careful Distinctions | p. 433 |
| The Moral Status of the Embryo | p. 436 |
| The Puzzle of Profound Respect: Human Embryo Research | p. 437 |
| Embryonic Stem Cell Retrieval and a Possible Ethical Bypass | p. 440 |
| What Is the Meaning of Death? | p. 442 |
| The Death of Socrates | p. 444 |
| A Taoist on Death | p. 446 |
| Death | p. 447 |
| Active and Passive Euthanasia | p. 452 |
| The Intentional Termination of Life | p. 456 |
| Meanings of Death | p. 460 |
| How Should I Respond to War or Terrorism? | p. 470 |
| Whether It Is Always Sinful to Wage War | p. 473 |
| Power and Violence | p. 475 |
| Address to the Nation, September 11, 2001 | p. 480 |
| The End of Our Holiday from History | p. 481 |
| The experiments of Ghandi: Nonviolent in the Nuclear Age | p. 482 |
| Defining a Just War | p. 486 |
| In War Truth is the First Casualty | p. 491 |
| Questions REgarding a War on Terrorism | p. 492 |
| War Against Terror or War to Govern the World? | p. 495 |
| How Does Racism Affect My Life? | p. 497 |
| Anti-Semite and Jew | p. 500 |
| What Good Am I? | p. 502 |
| I'm Black, You're White, Who's Innocent? | p. 506 |
| "But Would That Still Be Me?" | p. 511 |
| The Erasure of Black Women | p. 515 |
| The Myth of the Immoral Black Mother | p. 521 |
| Two Kinds | p. 530 |
| Living a Good Life | p. 537 |
| Why Shouldn't I Be Selfish? | p. 538 |
| Get it and feel good | p. 542 |
| The Ring of Gyges | p. 543 |
| The Pursuit of Pleasure | p. 546 |
| People are Selfish | p. 548 |
| On Human Nature | p. 550 |
| Compassion | p. 551 |
| The Selfish Gene | p. 553 |
| So Cleverly Kind an Animal | p. 555 |
| The Virtue of Selfishness | p. 559 |
| Individual Rights, Welfare Rights | p. 562 |
| Ethical Egoism | p. 563 |
| Can There Be Sexual Equality? | p. 569 |
| The Equality of Women | p. 572 |
| The Inequality of Women | p. 576 |
| The Inequality of Women | p. 576 |
| The Subjection of Women | p. 577 |
| Sexism | p. 584 |
| Monogamy vs. Promiscuity: Putting Evolutionary Psychology on the Couch | p. 590 |
| The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought | p. 598 |
| Is Feminist Philosophy a Contradiction in Terms?: First Philosophy, The Second Sex, and The Third Wave | p. 606 |
| On the Rag | p. 614 |
| Selling Out | p. 619 |
| What Is the Right Thing for Me to Do? | p. 622 |
| The Ten Commandments and The Sermon on the Mount | p. 625 |
| The Analects | p. 628 |
| The Unjust | p. 629 |
| Happiness and the Good Life | p. 630 |
| Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals | p. 638 |
| Utilitarianism | p. 642 |
| The Natural History of Morals | p. 645 |
| Emotivism | p. 648 |
| Freedom and Morality | p. 651 |
| The Conscience of Huck Finn | p. 652 |
| One Feminist View of Ethics | p. 655 |
| Through the Moral Maze | p. 658 |
| I Like It, but Is It Art? | p. 663 |
| The Nature of Tragedy | p. 666 |
| Of the Standard Of Taste | p. 671 |
| What Is Art? | p. 675 |
| The Motion Picture Production Code | p. 678 |
| The Culture Industry | p. 681 |
| The Art World | p. 686 |
| The Worship of Art: Notes on the New God | p. 690 |
| Beauty, Kitsch, and Glamour | p. 694 |
| The Male Gaze | p. 699 |
| Who Should Support the Arts? | p. 702 |
| Justice and Responsibility | p. 705 |
| Am I Free to Choose What I Do? | p. 706 |
| Antigone's Fate | p. 709 |
| Voluntary and Involuntary Action | p. 712 |
| Are We Cogs in the Universe? | p. 714 |
| Twilight of an Error | p. 716 |
| Meaning and Free Will | p. 718 |
| Freedom and Responsibility | p. 725 |
| Freedom and the Control of Men | p. 727 |
| The Significance of Free Will: Old Dispute, New Themes | p. 732 |
| Moral Luck | p. 737 |
| Autonomy and Identity in Feminist Thinking | p. 740 |
| Oppression | p. 743 |
| What Do I Justly Deserve? | p. 747 |
| Does Might Make Right | p. 749 |
| Justice and the Social Contract | p. 752 |
| A Utilitarian Theory of Justice | p. 756 |
| Justice as Fairness | p. 760 |
| The Principle of Fairness | p. 765 |
| Economic Income and Social Justice | p. 770 |
| The Myth of Merit | p. 775 |
| Property and Hunger | p. 778 |
| Human Rights, Civil Rights | p. 784 |
| Justice, Care, and Gender Bias | p. 786 |
| How Should I Make Money? | p. 789 |
| On Business | p. 793 |
| Benefits of the Profit Motive | p. 794 |
| The Immorality of Capitalism | p. 798 |
| The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits | p. 799 |
| The Ford Pinto Memo | p. 802 |
| Crime in the Suites | p. 803 |
| Why Shouldn't Corporations Be Socially Responsible | p. 804 |
| Honest Work | p. 806 |
| A Bill of Rights for Employees and Employers | p. 809 |
| Making Money and the Importance of the Virtues | p. 811 |
| Follow Your Bliss | p. 817 |
| Credits | p. 818 |
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