Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: What Can We Know?.
Introduction.
1. Rene Descartes, From Meditations On First
Philosophy.
2. David Hume, From An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding.
3. Jonathan Vogel, ?Cartesian Skepticism And Inference To
The Best Explanation?.
4. Helen Longino, From Science As Social Knowledge.
5. Charles W. Mills, ?Alternative
Epistemologies?.
6. Genevieve Lloyd, From The Man Of Reason.
7. W. K. Clifford, ?The Ethics Of
Belief?.
8. Peter Van Inwagen, ?It Is Wrong, Everywhere, Always,
And For Anyone, To Believe Anything Upon Insufficient
Evidence?.
Part II: What Can We Know About The Nature And Existence Of
God?.
Introduction.
9. St. Anselm, From Proslogium.
10. Gaunilon, ?Reply To Anselm?.
11. William L. Rowe, ?The Ontological Argument?.
12. William L. Rowe, ?The Cosmological
Argument?.
13. David Hume, From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
14. R. G. Swinburne, ?The Argument From Design?.
15. Blaise Pascal, ?The Wager?.
16. Stephen P. Stich, ?The Recombinant DNA Debate: A
Difficulty For Pascalian-Style Wagering?.
17. George Schlesinger, ?A Central Theistic
Argument?.
18. J. L. Mackie, ?Evil And Omnipotence?.
19. Eleonore Stump, ?The Problem Of Evil?.
20. Deborah Mathieu, ?Male-Chauvinist Religion?.
21. William R. Jones, From ?Is God A White
Racist??.
Part III: Are We Ever Free?.
Introduction.
22. Paul Holbach, From The System Of Nature.
23. A. J. Ayer, ?Freedom And Necessity?.
24. Roderick M. Chisolm, ?Human Freedom And The
Self?.
25. Harry G. Frankfurt, ?Freedom Of The Will And The
Concept Of A Person?.
26. James P. Sterba And Janet Kourany, ?How To Complete
The Compatibilist Account Of Free Action?.
27. Derk Pereboom, ?Living Without Free Will: The Case For
Hard Incompatibilism?.
28. Richard Double, ?Metaethics, Metaphilosophy, And Free
Will Subjectivism?.
Part IV: Does Our Existence Have A Meaning Or
Purpose?.
Introduction.
29. Leo Tolstoy, From My Confession.
30. William Lane Craig, ?The Absurdity Of Life Without
God?.
31. Arthur Schopenhauer, ?On The Vanity Of
Existence?.
32. Albert Camus, From The Myth Of Sisyphus.
33. Jean-Paul Sartre, ?Existentialism Is A
Humanism?.
34. Thomas Nagel, ?The Absurd?.
35. Owen Flanagan, ?What Makes Life Worth
Living??.
36. John Kekes, ?The Meaning Of Life?.
37. Antony Flew, ?Tolstoi And The Meaning Of
Life?.
Part V: How Should We Live?.
Introduction.
38. Plato, ?Morality As Good In Itself?.
39. James P. Sterba, ?Morality And Rationality?.
40. John Stuart Mill, From Utilitarianism.
41. Immanuel Kant, ?Fundamental Principles Of The
Metaphysic Of Morals?.
42. John Locke, ?Of The State Of Nature?.
43. John Rawls, From A Theory Of Justice.
44. Robert Nozick, From Anarchy, State, And Utopia.
45. Ruth Sample, ?Why Feminist
Contractarianism??.
46. Susan Moller Okin, ?Gender Inequality And Cultural
Difference?.
47. Jane Flax, ?Race/Gender, And The Ethics Of
Difference?.
48. Susan Moller Okin, ?A Response To Jane
Flax?.
49. Bernard Boxill, ?Equality, Discrimination, And
Preferential Treatment?.
50. Peter Singer, ?All Animals Are Equal?.
51. Paul W. Taylor, ?The Ethics Of Respect For
Nature?.
52. James P. Sterba, ?Morality As A Compromise Between
Anthropocentrism And Non-Anthropocentrism?.
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