| Preface | |
| Prologue: A Philosophical Dialogue | p. 1 |
| Plato: Euthyphro | p. 2 |
| Reason and Religious Belief | p. 14 |
| The Ontological Argument, from Proslogium | p. 19 |
| The Ontological Argument | p. 21 |
| The Five Ways, from Summa Theologica | p. 30 |
| A Modern Formulation of the Cosmological Argument, from A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God | p. 32 |
| The Cosmological Argument | p. 33 |
| The Argument from Design, from Natural Theology | p. 41 |
| The Panda's Thumb, from The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History | p. 46 |
| Senseless Signs of History, from The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History | p. 50 |
| Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, II-XI | p. 51 |
| Rebellion, from The Brothers Karamazov | p. 83 |
| Evil and Omnipotence | p. 88 |
| The Problem of Evil: Some Traditional Defenses | p. 96 |
| The Problem of Evil: The Free Will Defense | p. 103 |
| The Ethics of Belief | p. 111 |
| The Wager, from Pensees | p. 115 |
| You Bet Your Life: Pascal's Wager Defended | p. 119 |
| The Will to Believe | p. 128 |
| Beyond God the Father | p. 136 |
| Human Knowledge: Its Grounds and Limits | p. 144 |
| A Brain in a Vat | p. 152 |
| The Problem of the Criterion | p. 157 |
| Meditations on First Philosophy (complete) | p. 165 |
| The Causal Theory of Perception, from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | p. 195 |
| Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (complete) | p. 202 |
| An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, II, IV-VII | p. 247 |
| An Encounter with David Hume | p. 270 |
| Science and Myth | p. 287 |
| The Opinion in McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education | p. 291 |
| The Fixation of Belief | p. 295 |
| Some Consequences of Four Incapacities | p. 300 |
| Mind and Its Place in Nature | p. 302 |
| The Subject of Consciousness, from Philosophy of Mind | p. 308 |
| Behaviorism, Materialism and Functionalism, from Matter and Consciousness | p. 322 |
| Minds, Brains, and Programs, from The Behavioral and Brain Sciences | p. 336 |
| Robots and Minds | p. 348 |
| Star Witness | p. 353 |
| Where Am I?, from Brainstorms | p. 369 |
| Survival: The Problem of Identity | p. 377 |
| A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality | p. 383 |
| Why Immortality Is Not So Bad | p. 401 |
| Determinism, Free Will, and Responsibility | p. 410 |
| The Illusion of Free Will, from System of Nature | p. 418 |
| Beyond Freedom and Dignity | p. 423 |
| Freedom and Necessity, from Philosophical Essays | p. 431 |
| Sanity and the Metaphysics of Responsibility | p. 436 |
| Has the Self 'Free Will'?, from On Selfhood and Godhood | p. 445 |
| Free Will, Self Construction, and Anguish | p. 456 |
| The Natural Lottery | p. 463 |
| Trying Our Luck | p. 467 |
| Uneven Starts and Just Deserts | p. 472 |
| Self-Love and the Claims of Morality | p. 476 |
| Relativism and Ultimate Disagreements About Ethical Principles, from Ethical Theory | p. 485 |
| The Challenge of Cultural Relativism, from The Elements of Moral Philosophy | p. 488 |
| Relativism, from Morality: An Introduction to Ethics | p. 495 |
| Psychological Egoism | p. 497 |
| The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn | p. 508 |
| Moral Luck | p. 515 |
| Utilitarianism, Chapters 1 and 2 | p. 522 |
| Famine, Affluence, and Morality | p. 534 |
| The Ethics of Emergencies, from The Virtue of Selfishness | p. 541 |
| Ethical Egoism, from The Elements of Moral Philosophy | p. 545 |
| What Makes Acts Right?, from The Right and the Good | p. 552 |
| The Categorical Imperative, from Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals | p. 559 |
| From A Theory of Justice | p. 567 |
| Letter from Birmingham Jail, from Why We Can't Wait | p. 572 |
| Justice and Gender, from Justice, Gender and the Family | p. 581 |
| The Immoralists' Challenge, from The Republic, Book II | p. 594 |
| Socrates' Answer (in part), from The Republic, Books II, III, and IV | p. 600 |
| The Reconciliation Project | p. 623 |
| Glossary | p. 637 |
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