The Big Questions of Philosophy

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Professor Biography Table of Contents Course Scope Lecture 1—How Do We Do Philosophy? Lecture 2—Why Should We Trust Reason? Lecture 3—How Do We Reason Carefully? Lecture 4—How Do We Find the Best Explanation? Lecture 5—What Is Truth? Lecture 6—Is Knowledge Possible? Lecture 7—What Is the Best Way to Gain Knowledge? Lecture 8—Do We Know What Knowledge Is? Lecture 9—When Can We Trust Testimony? Lecture 10—Can Mystical Experience Justify Belief? Lecture 11—Is Faith Ever Rational? Lecture 12—Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Lecture 13—What Is God Like? Lecture 14—How Could God Allow Moral Evil? Lecture 15—Why Would God Cause Natural Evil? Lecture 16—Are Freedom and Foreknowledge Compatible? Lecture 17—Do Our Souls Make Us Free? Lecture 18—What Does It Mean to Be Free? Lecture 19—What Preserves Personal Identity? Lecture 20—Are Persons Mere Minds? Lecture 21—Are Persons Just Bodies? Lecture 22—Are You Really You? Lecture 23—How Does the Brain Produce the Mind? Lecture 24—What Do Minds Do, If Anything? Lecture 25—Could Machines Think? Lecture 26—Does God Define the Good? Lecture 27—Does Happiness Define the Good? Lecture 28—Does Reason Define the Good? Lecture 29—How Ought We to Live? Lecture 30—Why Bother Being Good? Lecture 31—Should Government Exist? Lecture 32—What Justifies a Government? Lecture 33—How Big Should Government Be? Lecture 34—What Are the Limits of Liberty? Lecture 35—What Makes a Society Fair or Just? Lecture 36—What Is the Meaning of Life? Bibliography Photographic Credits