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Tables of Contents for Philosophy Matters
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
What is Philosophy?
1
14
The Origins of Philosophy
1
2
The Contemporary Situation
3
3
Knowledge and Reason
6
3
Progress in Philosophy
9
2
Philosophy and the World
11
4
Science and the World
15
14
Empiricism
15
3
The Authority of Science
18
3
Many Universes
21
3
Physicalism and Naturalism
24
5
Can We Understand the World?
29
15
Science and Reason
29
3
The Influence of the Enlightenment
32
3
What Makes Science Successful?
35
4
Autonomy and Choice
39
5
Modernity
44
14
Laws of Nature
44
3
Mechanisms and Machines
47
3
The Reaction against Modernity
50
3
The Lure of Pragmatism
53
5
Relativism and its Flaws
58
14
Tradition and Truth
58
3
A Shared World
61
3
Translation and Conceptual Differences
64
3
The Incoherence of Relativism
67
5
The Impact of Darwinism
72
15
Relativism and Scientism
72
2
Darwinism
74
4
A Vicious Circle
78
3
Causes and Content
81
6
The Challenge of Determinism
87
15
The Limits of Causation?
87
4
Blind Matter
91
2
Reasons and Causes
93
4
Do Causes Undermine Reasons?
97
5
Materialism and the Laws of Nature
102
13
The Status of Mathematics
102
3
Mathematics and Materialism
105
3
Laws of Nature
108
3
Contingent Order
111
4
The Brain and the Mind
115
15
The Attack on Dualism
115
3
Are We Machines?
118
3
The Importance of Feelings
121
4
Emergence and Causation
125
5
Reason and Philosophy
130
14
Reason and Matter
130
2
Can We Accept the Non-material?
132
3
Two Worlds
135
3
Philosophy Matters
138
6
Glossary
144
10
Index
154