Machine generated contents note: ch. 7 Epistemic Norms. The Dao and Other Religious Ultimates that Cannot Be Spoken -- A God of All Creation and of All Peoples -- Transcendence and Immanence in Religion of Nature -- The Paradox of Existential Certitude -- ch. 2 Science -- The Claim to Scientific Objectivity -- Assumptions Lying Behind Scientific Reasoning -- The Need for Dialogue between Science and Other Fields of Thought -- Science and the Future -- ch. 3 Morality -- Truth and Goodness -- Aristotle and Mill -- Hobbes and Hume -- Kant and Rawls -- Obligations to Nature and All the Creatures of Nature -- ch. 4 Economics and Ecology -- Earth as Warehouse of Resources for Human Use -- Free Markets Automatically and Maximally Benefit Everyone -- Healthy Economic Systems Always Exhibit Steady Growth -- Globalization is Beneficial to Everyone -- Government Deficits are Bad and Should Always be Avoided to the Greatest Possible Extent -- Capitalism is Always Good and Any Tendency to Socialism is Bad -- Wheeling and Dealing -- Partiality of Truths as Excuses for Inaction -- ch. 5 Philosophy -- Facts and Values -- Continuity and Novelty -- Rationalism and Empiricism -- Mind-Body Dualism and Reductionism -- Good and Evil -- ch. 6 Humanity -- Stunted and Soaring Trees -- Signs of Approaching Disaster -- Signs of Hope -- ch. 7 Perspectives -- Perspectival Realism -- The Necessary Perspectivity of a God's-Eye View of the World -- Epistemic Norms.
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Suny series in American philosophy and cultural thought
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