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| Introduction | |
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| How to Use this Book in a Philosophy Course | |
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| What is Philosophy? | |
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| Section Introduction | |
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| Socrates and the Spirit of Philosophy | |
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| Flatulence and Philosophy: A Lot of Hot Air, or the Corruption of the Youth? | |
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| Logic and Fallacies | |
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| The Chewbacca Defense: A South Park Logic Lesson | |
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| Relativism and Truth | |
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| Wikiality, Truthiness, and Gut Thinking: Doing Philosophy Colbert-Style | |
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| Epistemology | |
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| Section Introduction | |
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| The Ethics of Belief | |
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| You Know, I learned Something Today: Stan Marsh and the Ethics of Belief | |
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| Skepticism | |
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| Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: Knowledge, Reality, and the Pit of Skepticism | |
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| The Definition of Knowledge, the Gettier Problem, and the Ethics of Belief | |
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| Adama's True Lie: Earth and the Problem of Knowledge | |
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| Metaphysics | |
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| Section Introduction | |
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| Philosophy of Mind | |
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| Mind and Body in Zion | |
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| Personal Identity | |
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| The Many Lives of Wolverine: Memory and Personal Identity | |
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| Freedom and Determinism | |
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| Destiny in the Wizarding World | |
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| Artificial Intelligence, The Turing Test, and the Chinese Room | |
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| The Terminator Wins: Is the Extinction of the Human Race the End of People, or Just the Beginning? | |
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| Philosophy of Religion | |
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| Section Introduction | |
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| The Problem of Evil | |
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| Cartmanland and the Problem of Evil | |
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| Faith Seeking Understanding | |
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| Aquinas and Rose on Faith and Reason | |
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| Arguments for the Existence of God | |
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| "I Am an Instrument of God": Religious Belief, Atheism, and Meaning | |
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| Ethics | |
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| Section Introduction | |
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| Why Be Moral? | |
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| Plato on Gyges' Ring of Invisibility: The Power of Heroes and the Value of Virtue | |
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| Virtue Ethics | |
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| The Virtues of Humor: What The Office Can Teach Us About Aristotle's Ethics | |
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| Utilitarianism and Deontology | |
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| Why Doesn't Batman Kill the Joker? | |
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| Means, Ends, and the Critique of Pure Superheroes | |
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| Challenges to Traditional Ethics | |
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| Section Introduction | |
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| Nietzschean and Marxist Critique | |
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| Metallica, Nietzsche, and Marx: The Immorality of Morality | |
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| When Machines Get Souls: Nietzsche on the Cylon Uprising | |
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| Existentialist Ethics | |
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| Being-in-The Office: Sartre, the Look, and the Viewer | |
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| Batman's Confrontation with Death, Angst, and Freedom | |
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| Feminist Critique | |
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| "You care for everybody": Cameron's Ethics of Care | |
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| Vampire Love: The Second Sex Negotiates the 21<sup>st</sup> Century | |
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| Postmodern Critique | |
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| Killing the Griffins: A Murderous Exposition of Postmodernism | |
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| Social and Political Philosophy | |
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| Section Introduction | |
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| Social Contract Theory | |
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| Lost's State of Nature | |
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| Marxism | |
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| Laughter between Distraction and Awakening: Marxist Themes in The Office | |
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| Torture | |
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| The Ethics of Torture in 24: Shockingly Banal | |
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| Race | |
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| Mutants and the Metaphysics of Race | |
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| Eastern Views | |
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| Section Introduction | |
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| Zen and the Art of Cylon Maintenance | |
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| The Sound of One House Clapping: The Unmannerly Doctor as Zen Rhetorician | |
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| The Tao of the Bat | |
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| The Meaning of Life | |
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| Section Introduction | |
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| The Theistic View | |
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| Beyond Godric's Hollow: Life after Death and the Search for Meaning | |
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| The Socratic View | |
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| Selfish, Base Animals Crawling Across the Earth: House and the Meaning of Life | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Sources | |
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| Index | |