Preface
Introduction: On the Mission of Philosophy
1. Ultimate Questions
2. World Views
3. Terminological Contextuality
4. On Contingency and Necessity
5. Randomness and Reason
6. Issues of Self-Reference and Paradox
7. Explanation and the Principle of Sufficient Reason
8. Intelligent Design Revisited in the Light of Evolutionary Neo-Platonism
9. What If Things Were Different?
10. On the Improvability of the World
11. Consciousness
12. Control
13. Free Will in the Light of Process Theory
14. Personhood
15. The Metaphysics of Moral Obligation
16. Empathy, Shared Experience, and Other Minds
17. Philosophy as an Inexact Science
18. Philosophy’s Involvement with Transcendental Issues
19. Religious Variation and the Rationale of Belief
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names