Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Limits of Theistic
Explanation 1. Must the Universe Have a Cause? 1.1 The mysteries of
existence 1.2 A first cause 1.3 The temporal and modal cosmological
arguments 1.4 Problems with the first premise 1.5 Summary Further reading
2. Is God Necessary? 2.1 Possible worlds 2.2 The ontological argument 2.3
The modal ontological argument 2.4 God and modal realism 2.5 Summary
Further reading 3. Could the Universe Have an Explanation? 3.1 A trivial
explanation 3.2 Causes and casual explanations 3.3 Personal explanation 3.4
A necessary cause? 3.5 Summary Further reading 4. Are We the Outcome of
Chance or Design? 4.1 Analogy and the teleological argument 4.2 Probability
and the teleological argument 4.3 The concept of chance 4.4 The weak
anthropic principle 4.5 Summary Further reading 5. Does the Universe Have a
Purpose? 5.1 The strong anthropic principle 5.2 Teleology and casual
reductionism: the selfish gene hypothesis 5.3 Teleology without casual
reductionism 5.4 Summary Further reading Part II: Moral Arguments for
Atheism 6. Are God and Ethics Inseparable or Incompatible? 6.1 Plato's
dilemma 6.2 Descriptive versus prescriptive morality 6.3 Moral realism and
moral subjectivism 6.4 Pluralism and autonomy 6.5 Summary Further reading
7. Is there a Problem of Evil? 7.1 Disaster, depravity, deity and design
7.2 Determinism and human nature 7.3 Human freedom from the divine
perspective 7.4 Can the theist refuse to answer the problem of evil? 7.5
Summary Further reading Part III: Religion without God 8. Is God a Fiction?
8.1 Realism, positivism and instrumentalism 8.2 Radical theology 8.3
Fiction and the emotions 8.4 Atheism and religious practice 8.5 Summary
Further reading 9. Is 'Does God Exist?' a real Question? 9.1 The
deflationist argument 9.2 The argument applied to theism 9.3 Deflationism
deflated? 9.4 Summary Further reading 10. Should the Atheist Fear Death?
10.1 Riddles of morality 10.2 The river of time and the sea of ice 10.3
Death in the mirror 10.4 Immortality: real and vicarious 10.5 Summary
Further reading Glossary Bibliography Index
