Philosophy in the Wild
Preface
Dedication
About this book
Acknowledgements
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Philosophy and Critical Thinking
1.1
What is philosophy?
1.2
What is a good reason?
1.3
Critical Thinking Toolkit
2
Religion, Magic and Metaphysics
2.1
“Being” Means Many Things
2.2
Arguing About God
2.3
Magical Thinking
3
Knowledge, Science and Skepticism
3.1
What Can I Ever Know?
3.1.1
Reasons for Doubt
3.1.2
Rationalism and Empiricism
3.1.3
Constructivism and Cognitive Science
3.2
Science or Superstition?
3.2.1
The Scientific Revolutions
3.2.2
Scientific Methods
3.2.3
Magical Thinking Again
3.3
Knowing What Isn’t So: Cognitive Biases.
3.3.1
Thinking Fast and Slow
3.3.2
Predictably Irrational
3.3.3
Conspiracies Real and Imagined
4
Minds, Machines and Freedom
4.1
Minds and Bodies
4.1.1
Mind, spirit, soul?
4.1.2
Brain and Behavior
4.1.3
The Mind as Software
4.2
Thinking Machines?
4.2.1
Turing’s Machines
4.2.2
Real AI
4.2.3
Embodied Minds
4.3
Causes, Effects and Freedom
4.3.1
Determinism and Physicalism
4.3.2
Liberty and Autonomy
4.3.3
Free the Robots
5
Ethics
5.1
Culture, Religion and Morality
5.1.1
When Push Comes to Shove: relativism in Theory and Practice
5.1.2
Religion and the Question of Foundations
5.1.3
Cultural Universals?
5.2
What’s in it For Me?
5.2.1
Psychological Egoism
5.2.2
In Defense of Capitalism
5.2.3
Self, Other and Ethics
5.3
Expanding the Circle
5.3.1
The Common Good
5.3.2
Human Rights: The Universal Realized
5.3.3
Expanding the Horizon
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6
Social and Political Philosophy
6.1
The Social Contract
6.1.1
On the Orgins of Society
6.1.2
Markets and Morals
6.1.3
Just Deserts
6.2
Self and Other
6.2.1
Racism and Fear of the Other
6.2.2
Gender, Sexuality, Identity
6.2.3
Imaginary Homelands
6.3
Democracy in Theory and Practice
6.3.1
The Worst of All Possibile Systems
6.3.2
Consent and Consensus
6.3.3
Democratic Community
7
Art, Philosophy and Meaning
7.1
Meaning, Form, Expression
7.2
New Worlds and Ways of Seeing
7.3
Representation and Social Conflict
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How to Contribute
8.1
Sections
8.1.1
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8.2
Contributing to an Existing Chapter
8.2.1
Software Tools
8.2.2
Lower Tech Methods
Summary
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3.1
What Can I Ever Know?
3.1.1
Reasons for Doubt
3.1.2
Rationalism and Empiricism
3.1.3
Constructivism and Cognitive Science