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Contents
1. Profile of
a Hijacker 1
Naturalism and the
Scientific Method
A
Zombie Theory
Greek Atomism
Mechanical
Philosophers
Deterministic
Materialism
Reductive
Materialism
Emergence
Eliminative Materialism
Science
is Human
Why Be
a Naturalist?
Arguments for
Naturalism
Irrational Factors
Summary
2. God and Science 27
Natural
Laws
Necessity
Miracles
God?
The Hypothesis
of God
Lack-of-Evidence
Argument
The Logic of
Scientific Explanation
Where Does God
Fit?
Proving God Exists
Objections
“Disproofs” of God
An All-Virtuous
God Cannot Exist
Worship and Moral Agency
The Problem of
Evil
A Perfect
Creator Cannot Exist
Transcendence vs. Omnipresence
Personality vs. Nonphysicality
The Paradox of
Omnipotence
The Hiddenness
of God
God is too
Complex to Exist
Other Arguments
for Unbelief
Conclusion
3. Mind or Randomness? 53
Logical
Propagators
Intentionality
in Nature
The Principle of
Causal Openness
Two Kinds of
Causality
Final
Causality
The
Argument from Design
Intentional Laws
Probability and
Randomness
Randomness and
Evolution
Natural
Selection
Targets in
Evolution
Objections
Design?
Summary
The
Fine-Tuning Argument
The Anthropic
Principle
Multiverses
Summary
Conclusion
4. Rules of Evidence 94
Cross-Eyed Philosophy
Projections
Presentations
and Representations
Models
Is
Experience Theory Laden?
Implicit
Theories
Objective and
Subjective Objects
Theory Laden by
Language?
Explicit
Theories
Is
Self-Knowledge Valid?
Introspection
How Do We Know
Intentionality?
Analogy
A
Double Standard
Summary
5. Experience of Mind 119
The
Third-Person Projection
Intentionality?
Consciousness?
Split-Brain
Experiments
Testing Causal
Closure
Believing and
Knowing
The Old
Switcheroo
Biological Data Processing
First-Person Projection
Incompleteness
Qualia
Consciousness
Global Workspace
Model
Unity of Consciousness
The Binding Problem
The Indexing
Hypothesis
Timing Awarenss
Timing and Conscious Causality
Awarenss Of Agency
Knowing
How is Experience Informative
Semiotics
Willing
Second-person Perspective
Controversial Data
The Placebo
Effect
Near Death
Experiences
Parapsychology
Spirituality and
Mysticism
The Mystical
Tradition
The
Phenomenology of
Mysticism
Neuroscience and
Mysticism
Mysticism and
Mind
Summary
6. Theories of Mind
177
Philosophical Approaches
Dualism
Monism
Materialism
Behaviorism
Functionalism
Eliminative
Materialism
Reductionism and Identity Theory
Emergent
Materialism
Supervenience
Aristotle's
Two-Subsystem Mind
Dynamical Approaches
Evolutionary
Psychology
Computers as
Minds
Minds as
Computers
Electromagnetic
Consciousness?
Quantum Theories of
Mind
7. Body and
Soul
220
Where
Do We Stand?
Is a Theory
Possible?
A Framework
From
Physical to Intentional
Bridging
Hypothesis
Representation
Non-Supervenience
The Intellectual
Soul
Dualism?
From
Intentional to Physical
Historical
Background
Intentional
Action
The Two
Subsystem Mind
Facilities of
the Noetic Subsystem
Conclusion
Soul
Our
Model
8. Concluding Unscientific Postscript
246
Review
Naturalism
Laws of
Nature
God
Evidence
Mind
Laws of
Nature
Conclusion
Faith and
Rationality
Appendix
260
Formal Proof for God‘s
Existence
Dynamic Ontology
Background
The Proof
Bibliography
263
Index
287
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