Looseleaf for Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments

Chapter 1The Philosophical EnterpriseSection 1.1Explaining the Possibility of the Impossible: Philosophical Problems and TheoriesSection 1.2Evidence and Inference: Proving Your PointSection 1.3The Laboratory of the Mind: Thought Experiments

Chapter 2The Mind-Body ProblemSection 2.1The Ghost in the Machine: Mind as SoulSection 2.2You Are What You Eat: Mind as BodySection 2.3I, Robot:  Mind as SoftwareSection 2.4There Ain’t No Such Things as Ghosts: Mind as MythSection 2.5The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: Mind as Quality
 Chapter 3Free Will and DeterminismSection 3.1The Luck of the Draw: Freedom as ChanceSection 3.2The Mother of Invention: Freedom as NecessitySection 3.3Control Yourself: Freedom as Self-Determination
Chapter 4The Problem of Personal IdentitySection 4.1We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On: Self as SubstanceSection 4.2Golden Memories: Self as PsycheSection 4.3You Can’t Step into the Same River Twice: Self as Process
Chapter 5The Problem of Relativism and MoralitySection 5.1Don’t Question Authority: Might Makes RightSection 5.2The End Justifies the Means: Good Makes RightSection 5.3Much Obliged: Duty Makes RightSection 5.4Character Is Destiny: Virtue Makes Right
Chapter 6The Problem of Evil and the Existence of GodSection 6.1The Mysterious Universe: God as CreatorSection 6.2When Bad Things Happen to Good People: God as TroublemakerSection 6.3Faith and Meaning: Believing the Unbelievable
Chapter 7The Problem of Skepticism and KnowledgeSection 7.1Things Aren’t Always What They Seem: Skepticism about Skepticism Greek RationalismSection 7.2Facing Reality: Perception and the External WorldSection 7.3What Do You Know?