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| Preface | |
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| Humanism in the Information Revolution | |
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| Secular Humanism Is a Whole Worldview | |
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| Religious Humanism and Antisocial Freethinking | |
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| Humanists Face the Information Revolution | |
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| Information and Knowledge | |
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| The Information Highway | |
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| Toward the Virtual Society? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Ten Cosmological Paradigms | |
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| Sketch of Ten Paradigms | |
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| Holism: The Cosmic Animal | |
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| Hierarchism: The Cosmic Ladder | |
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| Tychism: The World Casino | |
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| Dynamicism: The Grand River | |
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| Dialectics: Universal Conflagration | |
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| Atomism: The Cosmic Cloud | |
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| Mechanism: The Cosmic Clock | |
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| Sacralism: The Cosmic Temple | |
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| Textualism: The Book of the World | |
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| Systemism: The System of All Systems | |
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| Epistemological Consequences | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Materialism Triumphant | |
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| Matter Inert? | |
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| Matter Dematerialized? | |
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| Quanta Unreal? | |
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| Life Immaterial? | |
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| Mind Immaterial? | |
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| Culture Immaterial? | |
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| Science Is the Study of Matter | |
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| Materialism and How to Keep It Up to Date | |
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| Defining "Matter" | |
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| The Central Postulate of Materialism | |
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| Material Systems | |
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| Emergence | |
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| Levels and Evolution | |
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| A New Materialism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| From Neuron to Mind | |
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| Five Approaches to the Study of Humans | |
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| Seven Models of Man | |
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| Systems and Levels | |
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| Seeking to Explain Behavior and Mentation | |
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| Two Syntheses | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Two Trilemmas about Social Matter | |
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| Micro-macro Links | |
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| Social Dynamics | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Principles about Social Systems | |
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| Principles about the Study of Social Systems | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Interpretation and Hypothesis in Social Studies | |
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| Meaning, Goal, Function, or Indicator? | |
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| Interpretation, Inference, or Hypothesis? | |
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| Why Social-Science Problems Seem Intractable | |
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| Basic Similarity between Verstehen and Rational-Choice Theory | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Doubts about Skepticism | |
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| Dogmatism and Skepticism Come in Degrees | |
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| Is Anything Possible? | |
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| All Conjectures Are Not Equally Plausible | |
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| Likelihood and Plausibility: Different though Related | |
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| Negativism | |
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| The Skeptic's Paradox | |
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| Radical Skepticism Is Timid and Paralyzing | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Diagnosing Pseudoscience | |
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| Faking Science | |
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| Importance of the Problem | |
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| Cognitive Fields | |
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| Science and Pseudoscience | |
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| A Closer Look at Pseudoscience and Pseudotechnology | |
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| Parapsychology: Chasing Ghosts | |
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| Psychoanalysis: Wild Fantasies | |
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| Computerist Psychology: Confusing Brains with Machines | |
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| Distinguishing Pseudoscience from Protoscience and Heterodoxy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Values and Morals in a Materialist and Realist Perspective | |
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| Fact and Value | |
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| Law and Rule | |
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| Right and Duty | |
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| Agathonism: A Humanist Ethics | |
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| Technoholodemocracy: A Humanist Social Philosophy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Crisis and Reconstruction in Philosophy | |
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| The Crisis | |
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| Causes of the Crisis | |
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| Options and Desiderata for Reconstruction | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Note on the Sources | |
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| References | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Subjects | |