Index
A
Abstract object: 29, 30, 32
Aesthetic: 112, 247, 248, 249, 251, 254, 256, 262,
Agency: 63, 82
Agent: 77, 90, 91, 92, 99, 104, 128, 141
Agnosticism: 134, 135, 136, 139, 143, 151, 154, 226
Alienation: 135, 212, 213
Analogical argument: 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 113, 117
Analogical teleological argument: 111, 112, 116, 117, 118, 119
Anarchism: 178, 206
Animalism: 70, 71, 78, 80 Animal ancestors argument: 71 Anti-foundationalism: 13
Apatheia: 241, 242
Arbitrariness objection: 93, 94, 98, 99
Argument from intuitions: 88, 89
Argument from moral responsibility: 88, 89, 90
Argument from mysterious causes: 91 Argument from ordinary language: 96
Aristotelian account of well-being: 164, 165, 166, 167, 170
Artifact: 111, 113, 114, 118, 257, 262, 263
Artwork: 247-263 (257 def)
Atheism: 109, 110, 125, 126, 134, 135, 136, 148, 192
Autonomy: 82, 156, 157, 161, 162, 163, 164
Axiom: 12, 13
B
Beauty: 242, 247-256, 257, 261, 262, 263
Begging the question: 9, 10, 26
Big bang: 85, 123
C
Capital: 203, 204, 205, 208, 214, 218,
Capitalism: 164, 183, 188, 202-215, 217, 219, 222
Capitalist class: 204
Cartesian view of mind: 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 45, 52,
Chinese room: 35, 38, 39-45, 58
Common property: 185, 186, 194, 195,
Communism: 156, 174, 188, 203, 204, 207-213, 222
Compatibilist/compatibilism: 83, 84, 85, 87, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99
Concentrated power: 205, 215, 222
Concrete particular objects: 29, 30, 32
Conditional statement: 147
Confirmation bias: 147, 148, 153, 154, 155
Conscious experience: 4, 18, 20, 21, 23, 26, 28-32, 35, 46-56, 70, 73
Content: 46, 249-251, 252, 256, 261, 262, 263
Contradiction: 71, 95
Copyright: 193
Counterexample: 11, 40, 71, 124
Counterfactual: 93, 94, 97
D
Deconstruction: 174, 179, 180
Democratic socialism/Social democracy: 218, 221, 222
Derived intentionality: 36, 37, 41, 46
Determinism: 80, 84-94, 96-99, 100, 101, 105, 107, 108, 226, 240
Dilemma: 57
Difference principle: 196, 201
Divine right of kings: 198
Dualism: 34, 51, 58, 59, 92, 107, 108
E
Easy problems of consciousness: 48, 59
Eddington’s two tables: 14, 17
Eliminativism: 35, 52
Epistemological: 62, 97, 101, 224, 245
Epistemic objection: 93, 94, 97, 98
Epistemic reasons: 135, 136, 140
Enforceable claim: 185, 188, 190
Enlightenment philosophy: 172, 248, 249, 254, 256
Enjoyment: 160, 186
Equality principle: 195, 196, 201
Ethics of belief: 143, 149
Eudaimonia: 164
Existentialism: 166, 169, 171
Expression (art): 258, 260, 262
External world skepticism: 4-7, 9, 10, 14, 16, 17, 32, 155, 240
Extrinsic property: 61, 77
F
Fine-tuning argument: 117
First-person conscious experience: 46, 48, 50, 53, 55, 56, 70
Fission problem: 67, 74, 78
Forensic concept: 62, 63
Form: 249-263
Formalist: 251, 252, 256
Foundationalist: 13, 17, 179
Four noble truths: 224, 229, 233, 245
Free market economy: 203, 217
Free will defense: 129, 130, 131
Friendship: 156, 161, 162, 193, 242
G
Grand narratives: 77, 174, 177, 181, 183
Gross domestic product/GDP: 216
H
Hard determinism: 87, 88, 98
Hard problem of consciousness: 35, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 58, 59
Hasty generalization: 25, 26
Hedonism: 160, 161, 170
Heisenberg uncertainty principle: 100 High art: 258, 263
Homuncular fallacy: 37
I
Immaterial: 62, 107, 108
Incompatibilist: 83- 85, 87, 89, 90, 93-96, 107
Indirect response: 10Infallible: 158
Infinite regress: 37, 116, 119
Informational integration: 53, 54
Instrumentalism: 44
Instrumental value: 157, 162, 170
Intentionality: 36, 37, 41, 44, 45, 46, 58
Interaction problem: 35, 108
Interpretationism: 44, 45, 46, 58
Intrinsic property: 60, 61, 77
Intrinsic value: 157, 159, 162
Inverted spectrum: 18, 22, 23
Is/ought gap: 166
K
Knowledge: 5, 6, 11-16, 26, 35, 48, 49, 51, 58, 85, 86, 99, 101, 113, 145, 154, 161, 163, 164, 165, 168, 175, 229, 248
L
Language game: 12
Language of thought: 37, 38
Laplace’s demon: 84, 85, 89, 100, 165
Libertarianism: 87, 88, 98, 99, 105
Liebniz’s mill: 47
Locke’s labor theory of property: 198, 201
Logical problem of evil: 127, 128, 131
Logocentrism: 179
Low art: 258, 263
M
Market system: 206, 212, 213, 218
Means of production: 203, 204, 209, 210
Median household income: 214
Memory criterion of personal identity: 63-66, 69, 78, 79
Metaphysical: 17, 58, 59, 60, 61, 75, 76, 133, 136, 224, 226, 240
Mind-body problem: 35, 51, 58, 80, 107, 108
Mixed economy: 217
Modernism: 173, 260
Morality: 161-163, 170, 182, 194, 262
N
Natural object: 11-114, 118, 120, 257,
262, 263
Natural right: 185, 188, 190, 191
Newtonian physics: 100
Numerical identity: 60, 61, 65, 78
O
Objective view of beauty: 249, 251, 254
Objectivist theories of well-being: 156- 162, 164, 170
Ockham’s Razor: 34, 35, 51
Ontological: 101, 188
One god further argument: 109, 110
Original intentionality: 35-38, 41, 45, 46, 58
Other: 183
Other minds reply: 42, 44
Ought implies can: 89-90
P
Pansypsychism: 52, 54, 55, 59
Pascal’s wager: 139, 141, 149, 153,
Pastiche: 174, 175, 183
Performative: 182
Personal authority: 157, 159
Personal growth: 161, 163
Personal property: 210
Persistence question of identity: 60
Philosophical problem of free will and determinism: 81, 84, 93, 100, 101, 240, 246
Philosophical zombie: 20, 21, 26, 30, 32, 49, 57
Phenomenal facts: 50, 51
Physicalism: 34-38, 49, 50,51, 52, 56, 58, 59
Pluralism: 134, 136, 159
Possessive individualism: 197, 200
Postmodern novel: 178
Pragmatic argument: 140, 143, 149, 153
Pragmatic reason: 135, 136, 140, 142, 149
Price gouging: 215
Private property: 185, 191, 194, 201, 210
Problem of other minds: 18, 20-23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 240
Psychological question of personal identity: 61
Psychological continuity account of personal identity: 61, 66, 67, 68, 69, 74
Q
Qualia: 35, 46, 48, 50, 51, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59
Qualitative identity: 60
Quantum physics: 84, 100, 101, 106, 173, 182
R
Reconstructed argument: 5, 20, 24, 114, 122
Reductio ad absurdum: 42, 47, 71, 94, 95
Reflective theory of art: 261
Religious exclusivism: 134, 135
Religious pluralism: 134, 136
Representation: 36-38, 44-47, 58, 68, 80, 250, 257, 258, 259-261
Representation theory of art: 259
Right action: 230, 231, 232, 233
Right concentration: 230, 233
Right effort: 230, 232, 233
Right intention: 230, 231, 233
Right livelihood: 230, 232, 233
Right mindfulness: 230, 233
Right speech: 230, 231, 232, 233
Right view: 230, 231, 232, 233
Romantic philosophy: 248-249, 254, 256, 258, 260, 262
Romantic theory of art: 260
S
Schizophrenic nature of contemporary life: 174, 177, 178
Sensate pleasure: 160
Skeptical scenarios: 3, 5-6, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21
Slippery slope: 147
Simulacra: 174, 175-177
Social constructionism: 182, 255
Social democracy/ democratic socialism: 218, 221, 222
Socialism: 203, 204, 207, 217, 218, 220, 221, 222
Solipsism: 20
State of nature: 186-188, 206, 207, 222
Subjective: 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 26, 50, 57, 156-160, 161, 165, 166, 167, 169, 170, 249, 251, 254-256, 261, 262
Subjective meaning: 167, 168, 169
Subjectivist theories of well-being: 156, 157, 170
Syntactic machine: 40, 41
T
Taste: 247, 248, 249, 254-257, 258, 260, 261, 262
Transcendental argument: 89, 90, 98
Transcendent meaning: 165, 168, 169
Transitive relationship: 65, 78
Turing machine: 40
Turing test: 19-21, 23, 39-42, 58
U
Unmoved mover: 120, 124
V
Valid: 20, 116, 122
Valid argument: 20
W
Well-being: 156-167, 169, 170, 171, 218
Working class: 204
