Includes index

PROBLEMS OF KNOWLEDGE: The brain in a vat; Plato's cave; The veil of perception; Cogito ergo sum; Reason and experience; The tripartite theory of knowledge. pp.4-27

MIND MATTERS: The mind-body problem; What is it like to be a bat? The Turing test; The ship of Theseus; Other minds. pp.28-47

ETHICS: Hume's guillotine; One man's meat...; The divine command theory; The boo/hoorah theory; Ends and means; The experience machine; The categorical imperative; The golden rule; Acts and omissions; Slippery slopes; Beyond the call of duty; Is it bad to be unlucky? Virtue ethics. pp.48-99

ANIMAL RIGHTS: Do animals feel pain? Do animals have rights? pp.100-107

LOGIC AND MEANING: Forms of argument; The barber paradox; The gambler's fallacy; The sorites paradox; The king of France is bald; The beetle in the box. pp.108-131

SCIENCE: Science and pseudoscience; Paradigm shift; Occam's razor. pp.132-143

AESTHETICS: What is art? The intentional fallacy. pp.144-151

RELIGION: The argument from design; The cosmological argument; The ontological argument; The problem of evil; The freewill defence; Faith and reason. pp.152-175

POLITICS, JUSTICE AND SOCIETY: Positive and negative freedom; The difference principle; Leviathan; The prisoner's dilemma; Theories of punishment; Lifeboat Earth; Just war. pp.176-203