Knowing Reality

Dwayne Moore is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Saskatchewan.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Philosophy and Sophistry

1.1 Ancient Greek Mythology
1.2 Ancient Greek Philosophy
1.3 Sophism
1.4 The Upside of Philosophy
1.5 How to Win an Argument
Summary

Chapter 2: Truth and Relativism

2.1 Correspondence Theory
2.2 Coherence Theory
2.3 Pragmatic Theory
2.4 Relativism
Summary

Chapter 3: Substances – Change and Sameness

3.1 Milesian Materialism
3.2 Eleatic Idealism
3.3 Substratum Theory
3.5 Perdurantism
Summary

Chapter 4: Personal Identity

4.1 Soul Theory
4.2 Bundle Theory
4.3 Psychological Theory
Summary

Chapter 5: Mind and Brain

5.1 Dualism
5.2 Mind-Brain Identity Theory
5.3 Functionalism
5.4 Eliminative Materialism
5.5 Idealism
Summary

Chapter 6: Free Will and Determinism

6.1 Hard Determinism
6.2 Libertarianism
6.3 Compatibilism
Summary

Chapter 7: Knowledge

7.1 Propositional Knowledge
7.2 Descartes’ Rationalism
7.3 Hume's Empiricism
7.4 Naturalized Epistemology
7.5 Social Epistemology
Summary

Chapter 8: Perception

8.1 Direct Realism
8.2 Skepticism
8.3 Representational Model
8.4 Idealism
8.5 Intentionalism
Summary

Chapter 9: Self-Knowledge

9.1. Inner Sense Model
9.2 Behaviourism
9.3 Acquaintance Model
9.4 Externalist Models
9.5 Self-Deception
9.6 Rationality and Irrationality
Summary

Chapter 10: Philosophy of Science

10.1 Aristotle
10.2 Francis Bacon
10.3 David Hume
10.4 Immanuel Kant
10.5 Logical Positivism
10.6 W. V. O. Quine
10.7 Helen Longino
Summary

Chapter 11: God and Naturalism

11.1 The Cosmological Argument for Theism
11.2 The Naturalistic Argument for Naturalism
11.3 The Teleological Argument for Theism
11.4 The Problem of Evil
Summary

Chapter 12: Religious Experience, Faith, and Reason

12.1 Varieties of Religious Experience
12.2 Religious Experience as Delusions
12.3 The Principle of Credulity and the Principle of Testimony
12.4 Naturalistic Accounts
12.5 Reason and Faith
12.6 Fideism
12.7 Evidentialism
12.8 The Belief Model
Summary

Appendix 1: How to Write an 'A' Paper

1. Thesis Statement
2. Roadmap
3. Logical Structure
4. Sentence Structure
5. Original Ideas
6. Accurate Portrayal of Philosophical Positions
7. Effective Critiques of Philosophical Positions
8. Quotations and References