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Contents
Part 1Philosophy - Bertrand Russell Chapter 2: Deductive Arguments Chapter 3: Inductive and Abductive Arguments Part 2: The Philosophy of ReligionChapter 4: Aquinas's First Four Ways Reading: Five Ways to Prove That God Exists - Saint Thomas Aquinas Chapter 5: The Design Argument Readings: The Design Argument - William Paley Critique of the Design Argument - David Hume Chapter 6: Evolution and Creationism Chapter 7: Can Science Explain Everything? Chapter 8: The Ontological Argument Reading: Debate - Saint Anselm and Gaunilo Chapter 9: Is the Existence of God Testable? Reading: The Meaninglessness of Religious Discourse - Alfred Jules Ayer Chapter 10: Pascal and Irrationality Readings: Belief in God - What Do You Have to Lose? - Blaise Pascal The Will to Believe - William James Chapter 11: The Argument from Evil Part 3: Theory of KnowledgeChapter 12: What Is Knowledge? Reading: The Theaetetus - Knowledge is Something More than True Belief Plato Chapter 13: Descartes' Foundationalism Reading: Meditations on First Philosophy, 1-5 - Rene Descartes Chapter 14: The Reliability Theory of Knowledge Chapter 15: Justified Belief and Hume's Problem of Induction Reading: Induction Cannot Be Rationally Justified - David Hume Chapter 16: Can Hume's Skepticism Be Refuted? Chapter 17: Beyond Foundationalism Chapter 18: Locke on the Existence of External Objects Readings: The External World Probably Exists - Hans Reichenbach Yada yada - John Locke Part 4: Philosophy of MindChapter 19: Dualism and the Mind/Body Problem Reading: Meditations on First Philosophy, 6 - Rene Descartes Chapter 20: Logical Behaviorism Reading: Other Minds Are Known by Analogy from One's Own Case -Bertrand Russell Chapter 21: Methodological Behaviorism Chapter 22: The Mind/Brain Identity Theory Chapter 23: Functionalism Chapter 24: Freedom, Determinism, and Causality Chapter 25: A Menu of Positions on Free Will Readings: Determinism Shows That Free Will Is an Illusion - Baron D'Holbach Of Liberty and Necessity - David Hume Has the Self "Free Will"? - C. A. Campbell Chapter 26: Compatibilism Chapter 27: Psychological Egoism Reading: What Motivates People to Act Justly? - Plato Part 5: EthicsChapter 28: Ethics-Normative and Meta Chapter 29: The Is/Ought Gap and the Naturalistic Fallacy Chapter 30: Observation and Explanation in Ethics Chapter 31: Conventionalist Theories Readings: The Euthyphro - A Critique of the Divine Command Theory- Plato Existentialism - Jean-Paul Sartre Chapter 32: Utilitarianism Readings: Defense of Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill Principle of Utility - Jeremy Bentham On Liberty- John Stuart Mill Chapter 33: Kant's Moral Theory Reading Ethics Founded on Reason Immanuel Kant Chapter 34: Aristotle on the Good Life
