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| Preface | |
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| Beginning Philosophy | |
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| "The Trial of Socrates" | |
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| Box: "God's Commands and Man's Duties" | |
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| "Obedience to Authority" | |
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| Box: "Morality, Obedience, and Religion" | |
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| Where and When | |
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| "Flatland" | |
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| "The Incredible Shrinking Zeno" | |
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| "Where Am I?" | |
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| Box: "What It Is to Be a Subject" | |
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| "On the Idea of Time in Physics" | |
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| Box: "What Time Is It on Mars?" | |
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| "Time Travel: The Rules of the Road" | |
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| Who | |
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| "The Man Who Mistook Himself for the World" | |
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| Box: "The Liar Fears the Void" | |
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| "On Having No Self" | |
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| Box: "Nirvana" | |
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| Box: "Nirvana" | |
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| "On Self and Substance" | |
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| "Personal Identity" | |
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| "Personal Identity" | |
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| "Critique of Locke and Hume on Behalf of Common Sense" | |
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| Box: "Narration and Personal Identity" | |
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| "Personal Identity from Plato to Parfit" | |
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| "Trans or Me?" | |
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| Box: "Patriarchy" | |
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| Freedom | |
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| "Freedom of the Will" | |
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| "The Illusion of Free Will" | |
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| "Liberty and Necessity" | |
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| Box: "The Self and Free Will" | |
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| "The Dilemma of Determinism" | |
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| Box: "Be Master of Yourself" | |
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| "Free Will" | |
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| "Freedom and Determinism" | |
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| Box: "Defense of Leopold and Loeb" | |
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| "Existentialism and Human Freedom" | |
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| Knowledge | |
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| "Knowledge" | |
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| "Meditations" | |
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| Box: "The Chastity of the Intellect: Santayana's Blessing" | |
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| "Where Our Ideas Come From" | |
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| "To Be Is to Be Perceived" | |
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| "Perception, Knowledge, and Induction" | |
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| Box: "Sexy Epistemology" | |
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| "The Infinite Regress of Reasons" | |
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| God | |
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| "The Ontological Argument" | |
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| Box: "Existence Is Not a Predicate" | |
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| "The Five Ways and the Doctrine of Analogy" | |
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| "The Wager" | |
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| Box: "Proving God" | |
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| "The Ethics of Belief" | |
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| Box: "Religion as Wish Fulfillment" | |
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| Box: "The Opium of the People" | |
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| "The Will to Believe" | |
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| Box: "On the Ultimate Insecurity" | |
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| Box: "On the Corpse of a Buddha, Religion Stands" | |
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| Box: "The History of Mysticism" | |
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| "God and Evil" | |
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| Box: "A World Without Suffering and Misfortune" | |
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| Box: "Abraham and Isaac" | |
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| Box: "Mystical Experience vs. Religious Visions" | |
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| "Must God Create the Best?" | |
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| Box: "God's Compassion" | |
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| "The Elusive Messiah" | |
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| Box: "The Historian as Philosopher" | |
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| Box: "Historical Method in the Study of Religion" | |
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| Box: "Lucky to Be Born into the True Religion?" | |
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| "Philosophy, the Bible, and God: A Debate" | |
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| Box: "The Pope Against Women Priests" | |
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| "Religion from an African Perspective" | |
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| "Does Anyone Really Believe in God?" | |
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| Reality | |
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| "Causation, Reality, and Fiction" | |
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| "Considerations on the Universe as a Whole" | |
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| Box: "Theory of Everything but Snowflakes" | |
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| "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" | |
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| "Fiction" | |
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| Box: "Schizophrenia with a Vengeance" | |
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| "Quantum Cosmology, the Anthropic Principle, and Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?" | |
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| Box: "The First Hundredth of a Second" | |
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| Box: "Is the Universe a Free Lunch?" | |
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| Box: "On Hume and Quantum Mechanics" | |
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| Box: "On Philosophy" | |
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| Box: "On Kant and Comprehensibility" | |
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| Box: "Grand Unification Theories (GUTs) and the End of the World" | |
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| Box: "On Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and God" | |
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| Box: "On Bohr, Philosophy, and Meaning" | |
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| Box: "The Anthropic Principle" | |
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| "The Puzzle of Reality: Why Does the Universe Exist?" | |
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| Box: "Mind and Physics" | |
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| Box: "Cosmic Religious Feeling" | |
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| Experience | |
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| "Of Sense and Imagination" | |
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| "Experience and Understanding" | |
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| "The Senses" | |
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| "Percepts and Concepts" | |
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| "How Do You Know That You Are Not a Zombie?" | |
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| "A Simple Guide to Contemporary Philosophy of Mind" | |
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| "Sartre on Consciousness and the Body: The Look" | |
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| Consciousness | |
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| "The Selfish Gene" | |
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| Box: "The Self as Community" | |
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| "The Story of a Brain" | |
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| "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" | |
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| "Epiphenomenal Qualia" | |
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| "Reduction, Qualia, and the Direct Introspection of Brain States" | |
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| "Subjectivity" | |
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| Death | |
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| "Death and Immortality" | |
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| Box: "Plato's Legacy" | |
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| Box: "The Truth About the Soul" | |
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| Box: "The Cartesian Assumption" | |
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| "Of the Immortality of the Soul" | |
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| "Survival of Bodily Death: A Question of Values" | |
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| Box: "Remembrances of Past Lives" | |
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| Box: "Karmic Tribulations" | |
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| Box: "Beyond Death" | |
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| Box: "What I Saw When I Was Dead" | |
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| Box: "Resurrection" | |
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| "Death, Nothingness, and Subjectivity" | |
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| Box: "Why Are Traces Important?" | |
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| Box: "The Evil of Death" | |
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| Box: "A Tibetan Buddhist Experience of Death" | |
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| "The Wine Is in the Glass" | |
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| Meaning | |
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| "My Confession" | |
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| "The Myth of Sisyphus" | |
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| Box: "Values" | |
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| "Is Life Meaningful?" | |
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| "A Fast Car and a Good Woman" | |
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| Box: "Death" | |
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| Box: "Truth Be a Woman" | |
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| Ethics | |
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| "The Categorical Imperative" | |
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| Box: "What Is in Our Power" | |
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| "Utilitarianism" | |
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| "The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn" | |
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| "Reclaiming the Conscience of Huckleberry Finn" | |
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| "Buddhist Ethics" | |
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| "Morality and the Problem of the Other: From Sidgwick to Rawls and Parfit" | |
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| Values and Society | |
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| "The Myth of Gyges's Ring" | |
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| "Virtue and Character" | |
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| Box: "On Egoism" | |
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| "The Rights of Women" | |
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| Box: "Feminism" | |
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| Box: "Female Subordination" | |
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| "Beyond Good and Evil" | |
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| Box: "Revolt" | |
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| "Intrinsic Value" | |
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| "On Liberty" | |
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| "Alienation and the Power of Money" | |
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| "Philosophy and Economics: Issues and Questions" | |
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| Epilogue: Inconclusive Philosophical Postscript | |
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| "The Value of Philosophy" | |
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| "A Portrait of the Philosopher as a Young Man" | |
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| "On Becoming a Philosopher" | |
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| "Feisty Fragments" | |
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| Glossary | |