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