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Tables of Contents for Atheistic Humanism
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
9
8
Part One: Fundamentals of Unbelief
A Defeasible Atheism
17
25
An attempt to see with fresh eyes
19
4
Traditional definitions as incongruent constraints
23
5
The argument from personal experience
28
4
A conserving and/or initiating cause
32
3
Traditional Arguments to Design
35
7
Theism Indefeasible and Insupportable
42
27
Five blind alleys
42
5
God and the Big Bang
47
4
The Argument to Design redivivus
51
2
God as perfectly good?
53
3
A Creator as interventionist?
56
3
The Free Will Defense
59
10
Evidencing Naturally Impossible Occurrences
69
19
Miracles and the rationality of faith
70
4
The presuppositions of critical history
74
3
Possible counters to such methodological objections
77
3
Impossibility and unrepeatability
80
3
Disturbing peculiarities of parapsychology
83
5
Can We Survive Our Own Deaths?
88
21
Setting the problem: The great obstacle
89
1
Possible routes around or over that obstacle
90
4
What Butler saw as ``strange perplexities''
94
5
The problem of personal identity
99
10
Part Two: Defending Knowledge and Responsibility
Must Naturalism Self-Destruct?
109
32
Explanations as answers to questions
110
2
``There is no such thing as knowledge: we know.''
112
7
Knowing presupposes choosing
119
4
Sincerity, rationality, and monitoring
123
5
Only choosers know either choice or necessity
128
6
Epilogue: A sober and compatible naturalism
134
7
Sociology of or against Knowledge?
141
19
Facts as causes of beliefs about those facts themselves
142
3
Social causes usurping reason's throne?
145
3
The peculiar objects of mathematical belief
148
5
Beating back the sociological imperialists
153
7
Mental Health, Mental Disease, Mental Illness: ``The Medical Model''
160
31
An engagement with a Reith Lecturer
161
11
Mental illness and the medical model
172
10
An engagement with Thomas Szasz
182
5
A Parthian shot
187
4
Part Three: Scientific Socialism?
Communism: The Philosophical Foundations
191
16
A German philosopher
191
2
Dialectical materialism and dialectical logic
193
4
The faulty philosophical foundations
197
10
Comparing Marx with Darwin
207
21
Confirmations for ``our theory''?
207
5
A ``law of development of human history''?
212
3
Social science or revolutionary rhetoric?
215
6
Ignoring the realities of socialism
221
7
Market Order or Commanded Chaos?
228
21
The promise of the socialist project
228
2
The crucial unasked question
230
4
Competitive capitalism's open secret
234
5
Spontaneous order or central command?
239
2
Some significant failures
241
8
Part Four: Applied Philosophy
The Right to Death
249
12
Two kinds of rights
249
2
The right to life and the right to death
251
5
Doctors and the right to die
256
5
Brainwashing, Deprogramming, and Mental Health
261
13
What is brainwashing?
262
3
Religious conversion: A freshly identified mental illness?
265
2
Suitable cases for treatment?
267
2
What should we mean by ``mental illness''?
269
5
Three Concepts of Racism
274
19
Racism as a sort of bad behavior
275
2
Racism as a kind of heretical belief
277
2
What does and does not follow from such heresies
279
3
The relevance of cultural diversity
282
4
Racism and antiracism as ideologies
286
7
Freedom and Human Nature
293
1
A ``science'' of man without anthropomorphism
294
4
Possible applications of such supposed science
298