Core Questions in Philosophy (Paperback, 9 ed)

Part I: Introduction??1. What Is Philosophy???2. Deductive Arguments??3. Inductive and Abductive Arguments??Part II: Philosophy of Religion??4. Aquinas’s First Four Ways??5. The Design Argument??6. Evolution and Creationism??7. Can Science Explain Everything???8. The Ontological Argument??9. Is the Existence of God Testable???10. Pascal and Irrationality??11. The Argument from Evil??Part III: Theory of Knowledge??12. What Is Knowledge?　??13. Descartes’ Foundationalism??14. The Reliability Theory of Knowledge??15. Justified Belief and Hume’s Problem of Induction??16. Can Hume’s Skepticism Be Refuted???17. Beyond Foundationalism??18. Locke on the Existence of External Objects??19. Probability and Bayes’s Theorem??Part IV: Philosophy of Mind??20. Dualism and the Mind/Body Problem??21. Logical Behaviorism??22. Methodological Behaviorism??23. The Mind/Brain Identity Theory??24. Functionalism??25. Freedom, Determinism, and Causality??26. A Menu of Positions on Free Will??27. Compatibilism??28. Psychological Egoism??Part V: Ethics??29. Ethics?Normative and Meta??30. The Is/Ought Gap and the Naturalistic Fallacy??31. Observation and Explanation in Ethics??32. Conventionalist Theories??33. Utilitarianism??34. Kant’s Moral Theory??35. Aristotle on the Good Life??36. The Meaning of Life