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The Big Questions of Philosophy

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Learn to think clearly, shun fallacies, and reach your own conclusions as you confront the questions that have puzzled generations of philosophers.

Syllabus

01: How Do We Do Philosophy?
02: Why Should We Trust Reason?
03: How Do We Reason Carefully?
04: How Do We Find the Best Explanation?
05: What Is Truth?
06: Is Knowledge Possible?
07: What Is the Best Way to Gain Knowledge?
08: Do We Know What Knowledge Is?
09: When Can We Trust Testimony?
10: Can Mystical Experience Justify Belief?
11: Is Faith Ever Rational?
12: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
13: What Is God Like?
14: How Could God Allow Moral Evil?
15: Why Would God Cause Natural Evil?
16: Are Freedom and Foreknowledge Compatible?
17: Do Our Souls Make Us Free?
18: What Does It Mean to Be Free?
19: What Preserves Personal Identity?
20: Are Persons Mere Minds?
21: Are Persons Just Bodies?
22: Are You Really You?
23: How Does the Brain Produce the Mind?
24: What Do Minds Do, If Anything?
25: Could Machines Think?
26: Does God Define the Good?
27: Does Happiness Define the Good?
28: Does Reason Define the Good?
29: How Ought We to Live?
30: Why Bother Being Good?
31: Should Government Exist?
32: What Justifies a Government?
33: How Big Should Government Be?
34: What Are the Limits of Liberty?
35: What Makes a Society Fair or Just?
36: What Is the Meaning of Life?
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David K. Johnson

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