Includes bibliographical references (p. [627]-639) and indexes.
Contents:
What is philosophy? -- Argumentation and logic -- Knowledge and rationality -- The problem of skepticism -- The structure of justification -- Theories of truth and postmodernism -- Religious epistemology -- What is metaphysics? -- General ontology : existence, identity and reductionism -- General ontology : two categories-property and substance -- The mind-body problem : dualism -- The mind-body problem : alternatives to dualism -- Free will and determinism -- Personal identity and life after death -- Scientific methodology -- The realism-antirealism debate -- Philosophy and the integration of science and theology -- Philosophy of time and space -- Ethics, morality, and metaethics -- Ethical relativism and absolutism -- Normative ethical theories : egoism and utilitarianism -- Normative ethical theories : deontological and virtue ethics -- The existence of God (I) -- The existence of God (II) -- The coherence of theism (I) -- The coherence of theism (II) -- The problem of evil -- Creation, providence, and miracle -- Christian doctrines (I) : the Trinity -- Christian doctrines (II) : the Incarnation -- Christian doctrines (III) : Christian particularism.
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