Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction Part I: Knowledge and Truth 2. Skepticism 3. Relativism Part II: Minds, Bodies and Persons 4. Personal Identity 5. Artificial Intelligence Part III: Ethics and Moral Responsibility 6. Ethics 7. Free Will, Determinism and Moral Responsibility Part IV: Philosophy, Religion and the Meaning of Life 8. The Problem of Evil 9. Existentialism Appendix (Story Lines of Films by Time) A.1. Total Recall A.2. The Matrix A.3. Hilary and Jackie A.4. Being John Malkovich A.5. Memento A.6. AI: artificial Intelligence A.7. Crimes and Misdemeanors A.8. Gattaca A.9. The Seventh Seal A.10. The Rapture A.11. Leaving Las Vegas

About the Author

Mary Litch is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.