| Preface to the Second Edition | | viii | |
| Acknowledgements | | ix | |
| Introduction | | 1 | |
| | 1 | |
| | 2 | |
| Forms of rational justification |
| | 3 | |
| | 6 | |
| | 8 | |
| | 9 | |
| | 11 | |
| What is the theory of knowledge? |
| | 11 | |
| | 12 | |
| | 15 | |
| | 17 | |
| The tripartite account of knowledge |
| | 20 | |
| Against the tripartite account |
| | 23 | |
| | 25 | |
| Scepticism concerning knowledge |
| | 29 | |
| Scepticism concerning perception |
| | 32 | |
| | 36 | |
| | 36 | |
| | 38 | |
| Kant and the Synthetic A Priori |
| | 39 | |
| The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis |
| | 41 | |
| Objectivity and relativism |
| | 43 | |
| | 47 | |
| | 52 | |
| What is moral philosophy? |
| | 52 | |
| The divisions of moral philosophy |
| | 54 | |
| | 55 | |
| | 56 | |
| | 57 | |
| | 58 | |
| Deontological and consequentialist ethics |
| | 61 | |
| | 64 | |
| | 66 | |
| | 69 | |
| | 71 | |
| | 72 | |
| | 74 | |
| | 76 | |
| Approaches to applied ethics |
| | 77 | |
| | 78 | |
| | 81 | |
| What is the philosophy of mind? |
| | 81 | |
| | 83 | |
| Arguments against dualism |
| | 85 | |
| | 88 | |
| Arguments against behaviourism |
| | 91 | |
| | 93 | |
| | 95 | |
| Non-reductive materialism and epiphenomenalism |
| | 98 | |
| | 101 | |
| | 103 | |
| | 105 | |
| | 109 | |
| | 112 | |
| | 115 | |
| | 120 | |
| What is the philosophy of religion? |
| | 120 | |
| | 121 | |
| | 122 | |
| | 124 | |
| | 127 | |
| The status of religious language |
| | 128 | |
| | 131 | |
| The cosmological argument |
| | 133 | |
| The teleological argument |
| | 134 | |
| | 137 | |
| | 140 | |
| | 142 | |
| | 143 | |
| | 147 | |
| What is political philosophy? |
| | 147 | |
| | 148 | |
| | 150 | |
| | 152 | |
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| | 156 | |
| | 159 | |
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| | 164 | |
| The justification of the state and its authority |
| | 168 | |
| | 170 | |
| Justifications for punishment |
| | 172 | |
| | 174 | |
| | 178 | |
| | 178 | |
| | 178 | |
| | 181 | |
| Conventions and representation |
| | 183 | |
| | 185 | |
| | 188 | |
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| | 194 | |
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| | 199 | |
| Glossary | | 204 | |
| Further Reading | | 205 | |
| Index | | 206 | |