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Tables of Contents for Why Atheism?
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
13
2
Coming to Terms
15
16
The Credibility of Atheism
15
3
A Bugaboo Epithet
18
3
The Short and Easy Refutation of Atheism
21
4
Personal Atheism
25
3
Notes
28
3
The Methodology of Atheism
31
14
The Burden of Proof
31
3
Conceptual Analysis
34
4
Occam's Razor
38
5
Notes
43
2
Belief and Doubt
45
16
Beliefs
45
5
Two Atheists on Religion and Doubt
50
1
Doubt As Sin
51
2
Infallible Certitudes
53
1
The Varieties of Doubt
54
5
Notes
59
2
Belief and Knowledge
61
18
Two Kinds of Belief
61
1
Different Conceptions of Belief
62
2
The Elements of Knowledge
64
2
Justification
66
3
Truth
69
3
Ayn Rand's Theory of Knowledge
72
6
Notes
78
1
Belief and Free Will
79
14
The Fool
79
1
Belief and Moral Responsibility
80
3
Cognitive Determinism
83
1
Thomas Aquinas
84
6
John Locke
90
2
Notes
92
1
Why Philosophy?
93
14
History and the Inner Logic of Ideas
93
3
Progress in Philosophy
96
5
The Seventeenth Century
101
3
Notes
104
3
The Career of Reason
107
26
Francis Bacon
107
10
John Locke
117
11
Notes
128
5
Theology and Metaphysics
133
16
The Science of God
133
2
Two Kinds of Argument
135
5
Metaphysics
140
2
Arthur Schopenhauer
142
4
Notes
146
3
Metaphysical Muddles: The Ontological Argument
149
24
Introduction
149
1
Anselm
150
5
Aquinas
155
2
Descartes and Gassendi
157
7
Hobbes
164
2
Kant
166
5
Notes
171
2
The Roots of Modern Atheism (I)
173
20
The History of Atheism
173
2
Greek Atheism
175
5
The Reformation
180
4
Fideism
184
4
Notes
188
5
The Roots of Modern Atheism (II)
193
24
Thomas Hobbes
193
4
Spinoza
197
7
David Hume
204
6
Edward Gibbon
210
5
Notes
215
2
Some Irreverent Questions Concerning God
217
10
Is God an Atheist?
217
2
Is Satan a Christian?
219
1
Can God Tell the Perfect Joke?
219
4
Can God Have an Orgasm?
223
4
Matters of Life and Death
227
16
Ethics without God
227
11
Death
238
3
Notes
241
2
Index
243