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Each Part opens with an Introduction and ends with Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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Preface | |
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What Is Philosophy? | |
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Socratic Wisdom | |
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Of Enthusiasm and the Quest for Truth | |
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The Value of Philosophy | |
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Excursus: A Little Bit of Logic | |
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Deductive and Inductive Reasoning | |
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Abductive Reasoning | |
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Some Applications | |
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Fallacies of Reasoning | |
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Logic Exercises | |
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Philosophy of Religion | |
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Is Belief in God Rationally Justified? | |
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Arguments for the Existence of God | |
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The Cosmological Argument | |
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The Five Ways | |
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The Kalam Cosmological Argument and the Anthropic Principle | |
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Contra | |
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A Critique of the Cosmological Argument | |
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The Teleological Argument | |
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The Watch and the Watchmaker | |
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Contra | |
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A Critique of the Teleological Argument | |
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The Ontological Argument | |
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Pro et Contra | |
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The Ontological Argument | |
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An Analysis of the Ontological Argument | |
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Why Is There Evil? | |
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Why Is There Evil? | |
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Why Doesn't God Intervene to Prevent Evil? | |
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There Is a Reason Why God Allows Evil | |
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Is Faith Compatible with Reason? | |
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Yes, Faith Is a Logical Bet | |
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The Ethics of Belief | |
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The Will to Believe | |
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A Debate on the Rationality of Religious Belief | |
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Alvin Plantinga: Religious Belief Without Evidence | |
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Knowledge | |
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What Can We Know? | |
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Classical Theories of Knowledge | |
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Cartesian Doubt and the Search for Foundational Knowledge | |
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The Empiricist Theory of Knowledge | |
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An Idealist Theory of Knowledge | |
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The Origin of Our Ideas and Skepticism about Causal Reasoning | |
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An Argument Against Skepticism | |
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Truth, Rationality, and Cognitive Relativism | |
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The Correspondence Theory of Truth | |
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The Pragmatic Theory of Truth | |
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Dismantling Truth: Solidarity versus Objectivity | |
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Postmodernism and Truth | |
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Philosophy of Mind: The Mind-Body Problem | |
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What Am I? | |
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A Mind or a Body? | |
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Dualistic Interactionism | |
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Exorcising Descartes' "Ghost in the Machine" | |
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A Contemporary Defense of Dualism | |
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On Functionalism and Materialism | |
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What Is It Like to Be a Bat? | |
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Minds, Brains, and Computers | |
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Who Am I? | |
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Do We Have Personal Identity? | |
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Our Psychological Properties Define the Self | |
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We Have No Substantial Self with Which We Are Identical | |
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Brain Transplants and Personal Identity: A Dialogue | |
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Is There Life after Death? | |
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Am I Immortal? | |
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Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul | |
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An Argument Against Survival: The Dependence of Consciousness on the Brain | |
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In Defense of Immortality | |
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Freedom of the Will and Determinism | |
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Contra | |
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We Are Completely Determined | |
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