Book Details
Prologue. Why Truth Matters
Skepticism as an Agent of Reason Against Organized Irrationalism
Part I. Known Knowns
Chapter 1. The Truth About Post-Truth Truthiness
Why We Are Not Living in a Post-Truth
Prologue. Why Truth Matters
Skepticism as an Agent of Reason Against Organized Irrationalism
Part I. Known Knowns
Chapter 1. The Truth About Post-Truth Truthiness
Why We Are Not Living in a Post-Truth, Postmodern, Fact-Free World
Chapter 2. What Is Truth, Anyway?
Justified True Belief, the Principle of Universal Realism, and Why Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
Chapter 3. The Truth About Why
Causation, Correlation, Bayesian Reasoning, Signal Detection Theory, and the Determination of Cause and Effect
Chapter 4. The Truth About Coincidences and Miracles
How to Think About Highly Unlikely Events
Part II. Known Unknowns
Chapter 5. Religious and Mythic Truths
How to Think About the Resurrection and Other Myths
Chapter 6. Historical Truths
The Noble Dream of Pursuing Objective Truth About the Past
Chapter 7. Moral Truths
Science and the Search for Objective Universal Values
Chapter 8. Alien Truths
UFOs and the Search for Sky Gods
Part III. Known Unknowables
Chapter 9. The Truth About Consciousness
What Is It Like to Be You?
Chapter 10. The Truth About Free Will
Determinism, Self-Determinism, and Your Future Self
Chapter 11. The Truth About God
Arguments For and Against the Divine
Chapter 12. The Truth About Existence
Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Epilogue. Like Gods
The Expanding Sphere of Knowledge and My God Gambit
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index