
Cengage Advantage Books: Knowledge, Nature, and Norms An Introduction to Philosophy
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Table of Contents
Preface | p. x |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Personal Identity & Immortality | p. 17 |
The Meeting | p. 26 |
Phaedo | p. 35 |
The Myth of the Soul | p. 38 |
The Prince and the Cobbler | p. 45 |
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality | p. 49 |
The Unimportance of Identity | p. 62 |
The Mind-Body Problem | p. 67 |
They're Made Out of Meat | p. 77 |
In Defense of Dualism | p. 79 |
Dualism: For and Against | p. 84 |
The Mind-Body Problem | p. 96 |
Minds, Brains, and Machines | p. 110 |
The Puzzle of Conscious Experience | p. 128 |
Free Will, Determinism, and Responsibility | p. 138 |
Leopold and Loeb | p. 150 |
The Illusion of Free Will | p. 156 |
Has the Self 'Free Will'? | p. 162 |
The Problem of Free Will | p. 175 |
The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility | p. 183 |
Freedom and Resentment | p. 193 |
The Existence of God | p. 206 |
Rebellion | p. 213 |
The Ontological Argument/The Lost Island Objection | p. 217 |
The Cosmological Argument | p. 220 |
The Teleological Argument | p. 223 |
The Evidence of Miracles: An Exchange Between a Christian and an Atheist | p. 229 |
The Wager | p. 235 |
God | p. 238 |
The Problem of Evil | p. 250 |
The Mirror of Evil | p. 258 |
Knowledge, Skepticism, and Belief | p. 270 |
A Brain in a Vat | p. 282 |
Within the Sphere of the Doubtful | p. 284 |
Certainty | p. 290 |
A Defense of Skepticism | p. 295 |
The Ethics of Belief | p. 301 |
Is It Wrong Everywhere, Always, and for Anyone to Believe Anything on Insufficient Evidence? | p. 306 |
Ethics | p. 313 |
The Myth of Gyges | p. 322 |
A Defense of Ethical Relativism | p. 325 |
Right and Wrong | p. 331 |
In Defense of Utilitarianism | p. 339 |
The Moral Law and Autonomy of the Will | p. 346 |
An Ethic of Caring | p. 357 |
Virtue and Character | p. 368 |
Glossary | p. 379 |
Index | p. 387 |
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