PART ONE: Setting the Scene
1: Descartes's Demon
PART TWO: Beginning to Think about Ourselves
2: Consciousness, Zombies, and Permutants
3: Freedom, Determinism, Fate
4: The Conscious Self
PART THREE: Beginning to Think about the Way Things Are
5: Good God?
6: Wrestling with Idealism
7: Why do Things Keep on Keeping On?
8: The Arts of Intellectual Hygiene
PART FOUR: Beginning to Think About What to Do
9: Behaving Well
10: Pulling Together
Simon Blackburn is the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was a Fellow and Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1969 to 1990. His books for OUP are Spreading the Word (1984), Essays in Quasi-Realism (1993), The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (hbk 1994, pbk 1996), and Ruling Passions (1998). He edited the journal Mind from 1984 to 1990.
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