Mystery 101 An Introduction to the Big Questions and the Limits of Human Knowledge 1st edition by Richard Jones ISBN 1438468229 9781438468228

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ISBN 10:      1438468229
ISBN 13: 978-1438468228
Author:      Richard H Jones

Mystery 101 An Introduction to the Big Questions and the Limits of Human Knowledge 1st Table of contents:

1. Philosophy of Mystery

1.1 Mystery and Knowledge
1.2 Mystery versus Problems
1.3 Identifying Mysteries
1.4 Mysteries Today

2. Do We Create Our Own Mysteries?

2.1 History of Mystery in Philosophy
2.2 Mystery in Philosophy Today
2.3 Conceptualization and Mystery
2.4 Asking Questions and Demanding Answers
2.5 Notes

3. Do We Know Anything at All?

3.1 Pushing Our Search for Knowledge
3.2 Explanations and Brute Facts
3.3 Problems on the Path to a Final Explanation
3.4 Reasoning about Reality
3.5 Skepticism
3.6 Agnosticism
3.7 The Limits of Knowledge and Reason
3.8 Notes

4. What Is Reality?

4.1 Metaphysics and Metametaphysics
4.2 What Is Reality?
4.3 Being
4.4 The Problem with Metaphysics
4.5 Notes

5. Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

5.1 Nothingness
5.2 Can We Get from Nothing to Something?
5.3 Are Values the Answer?
5.4 Does Religion Have the Answer?
5.5 Does Science Have the Answer?
5.6 Does Philosophy Have the Answer?
5.7 The Oddity of the Question
5.8 The Wisdom of Queen Victoria
5.9 Appendix
5.10 Notes

6. Why Is Nature Ordered?

6.1 Why Any Order at All?
6.2 Causation
6.3 Why Is There Disorder?
6.4 Order and Structure
6.5 Notes

7. Reductionism and Emergence

7.1 What Is a Reduction?
7.2 Types of Reductionism
7.3 Antireductionism
7.4 Reductive and Antireductive Ontologies and Explanations
7.5 The Mysteries of Reductionism and Emergence
7.6 Notes

8. Does Science Dispel Mystery?

8.1 Basic Science
8.2 Simplification and Reality
8.3 Mathematics
8.4 Empirical Limits to Knowledge
8.5 Comprehending Reality
8.6 The Discovery of Mystery
8.7 A Two-Pronged Relationship to Mystery

9. What of Current Mysteries in Physics and Cosmology?

9.1 Quantum Physics
9.2 Relativity
9.3 Theories of Everything
9.4 Cosmology
9.5 What Is the Nature of Science Today?
9.6 Is the End of Theoretical Science at Hand?
9.7 Facing the Mysteries Today
9.8 Notes

10. What of Current Mysteries in Biology?

10.1 What Is Life?
10.2 The Evolution of Life
10.3 Reductive and Antireductive Views of Life
10.4 Intractable Mysteries Remain
10.5 Notes

11. What Am I?

11.1 The Self
11.2 Indian Alternatives
11.3 The Reduction of the Self
11.4 Mystery Remains
11.5 Notes

12. What Is Consciousness?

12.1 Reductive Naturalism
12.2 Antireductive Naturalism
12.3 First-Person Experiences
12.4 Is Consciousness Reducible?
12.5 The Reductionists’ Dilemma
12.6 Science and Consciousness
12.7 The Essential Mystery of Consciousness
12.8 Notes

13. Do We Have Free Will?

13.1 The Reductionists’ Denial of Free Will
13.2 Affirming Free Will
13.3 Determinism versus Causation
13.4 Science and Free Will
13.5 Free Will and Agnosticism
13.6 Notes

14. Does God Exist?

14.1 The Classic Arguments
14.2 Natural Suffering
14.3 Religious Experiences
14.4 Theology and Mystery
14.5 Agnosticism
14.6 Notes

15. Is There an Objective Meaning to Our Lives?

15.1 Transcendent Meanings
15.2 Naturalism and the Meaning of Life
15.3 Objective Natural Meaning
15.4 Subjective Responses
15.5 Nihilism
15.6 Values
15.7 The Mystery of Meaning
15.8 Notes

16. The Mystery of the Ordinary

16.1 Further Reading
16.2 Bibliography

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