Dare to Inquire: Sanity and Survival for the 21st Century and Beyond

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Extensional Publishing, 2003 - Philosophy - 398 pages
 

Contents

Language Note
13
The Humanist Tradition
29
A Spectrum of Modern Humanism
48
Becoming More Fully Human
56
Making Humanism Workable
73
Logical Fate and Freedom
94
A Mathematical Approach to Life
103
A Relational Worldview
114
An Extensional Approach
239
When Religion and Science Collide
240
Probabilistic Atheism
255
Beyond Belief in Belief
263
The Meanings of Life
275
TimeBinding Ethics
283
An Approach to Humanistic Ethics
284
The Case of Abortion
307

General Semantics
123
What We Do With Language
133
Mapping Our Experience
146
Deworming the Apples of Knowledge
159
Living Extensionally
170
Extensional Languaging
184
Implications and Applications
203
Unifying Human Knowledge
226
Conclusion
321
Sanity and Survival for the 21st Century and Beyond
324
Notes
342
Bibliography
361
Index
382
List of Figures
398
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