Just the arguments : 100 of the most important arguments in Western philosophy / edited by Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Philosophy of religion. Aquinas' five ways / Timothy J. Pawl -- The contingency cosmological argument / Mark T. Nelson -- The Kalam argument for the existence of God / Harry Lesser -- The ontological argument / Sara L. Uckelman -- Pascal's wager / Leslie Burkholder -- James' will to believe argument / A.T. Fyfe -- The problem of evil / Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone -- The free will defense to the problem of evil / Grant Sterling -- St. Anselm on free choice and the power to sin / Julia Hermann -- Hume's argument against miracles / Tommaso Piazza -- The Euthyphro dilemma / David Baggett -- Nietzche's death of God / Tom Grimwood -- Ockham's razor / Grant Sterling -- Part II. Metaphysics. Parmenides' refutation of change / Adrian Bardon -- McTaggart's argument against the reality of time / M. Joshua Mozersky -- Berkeley's master argument for idealism / John M. DePoe -- Kant's refutation of idealism / Adrian Bardon -- The master argument of Diodorus Cronus / Ludger Jansen -- Lewis' argument for possible worlds / David Vander Laan -- A reductionist account of personal identity / Fauve Lybaert -- Split-case arguments about personal identity / Ludger Jansen -- The ship of Theseus / Ludger Jansen -- The problem of temporary intrinsics / Montserrat Bordes -- A modern modal argument for the soul / Rafal Urbaniak and Agnieszka Rostalska -- Two arguments for the harmlessness of death. Epicurus' death is nothing to us argument / Steven Luper -- Lucretius' symmetry argument / Nicolas Bommarito -- The existence of forms : Plato's argument from the possibility of knowledge / Jurgis (George) Brakas -- Plato, Aristotle, and the third man argument / Jurgis (George) Brakas -- Logical monism / Luis Estrada-González -- The maximality paradox / Nicola Ciprotti -- An argument for free will / Gerald Harrison -- Frankfurt's refutation of the principle of alternative possibilities / Gerald Harrison -- Van Inwagen's consequence argument against compatibilism / Grant Sterling -- Fatalism / Fernando Migura and Agustin Arrieta -- Sartre's argument for freedom / Jeffrey Gordon -- Part III. Epistomology. The cogito arguments of Descartes and Augustine. Descartes' cogito / Joyce Lazier -- Augustine's "Si fallor, sum" argument (if I am mistaken, I exist) / Brett Gaul -- The Cartesian dreaming argument for external-world skepticism / Stephen Hetherington -- The transparency of experience argument / Carlos Mario Muñoz-Suárez -- The regress argument for skepticism / Scott Aikin -- Moore's anti-skeptical arguments / Matthew Frise -- The bias paradox / Deborah Heikes -- Gettier's argument against the traditional account of knowledge / John M. DePoe -- Putnam's argument against cultural imperialism / Maria Caamaño -- Davidson on the very idea of a conceptual scheme / George Wrisley -- Quine's two dogmas of empiricism / Robert Sinclair -- Hume and the problem of induction. Hume's problem of induction / James E. Taylor -- Hume's negative argument concerning induction / Stefanie Rocknak -- Argument by analogy in Thales and Anaximenes / Giannis Stamatellos -- Quine's epistemology naturalized / Robert Sinclair -- Sellars and the myth of the given / Willem A. deVries -- Sellars' "Rylean myth" / Willem A. deVries -- Aristotle and the argument to end all arguments / Toni Vogel Carey -- Part IV. Ethics. Justice brings happiness in Plato's Republic / Joshua I. Weinstein -- Aristotle's function argument / Sean McAleer -- Aristotle's argument that goods are irreducible / Jurgis (George) Brakas -- Aristotle's argument for perfectionism / Eric J. Silverman -- Categorical imperative as the source for morality / Joyce Lazier -- Kant on why autonomy deserves respect / Mark Piper -- Mill's proof of utilitarianism / A.T. Fyfe -- The experience machine objection to hedonism / Dan Weijers -- The error theory argument / Robert L. Muhlnickel -- Moore's open question argument / Bruno Verbeek -- Wolff's argument for the rejection of state authority / Ben Saunders -- Nozick's taxation is forced labor argument / Jason Waller -- Charity is obligatory / Joakim Sandberg -- The repugnant conclusion / Joakim Sandberg -- Taurek on numbers don't count / Ben Saunders -- Parfit's leveling down argument against egalitarianism / Ben Saunders -- Nozick's Wilt Chamberlain argument / Fabian Wendt -- Liberal feminism / Julinna C. Oxley -- Moral status of animals from marginal cases / Julia Tanner -- The ethical vegetarianism argument / Robert L. Muhlnickel -- Thomson and the famous violinist / Leslie Burkholder -- Marquis and the immorality of abortion / Leslie Burkholder -- Tooley on abortion and infanticide / Ben Saunders -- Rachels on euthanasia / Leslie Burkholder -- Part V. Philosophy of mind. Leibniz' argument for innate ideas / Byron Kaldis -- Descartes' arguments for the mind-body distinction / Dale Jacquette -- Princess Elisabeth and the mind-body problem / Jen McWeeny -- Kripke's argument for mind-body property dualism / Dale Jacquette -- The argument from mental causation for physicalism / Amir Horowitz -- Davidson's argument for anomalous monism / Amir Horowitz -- Putnam's multiple realization argument against type-physicalism / Amir Horowitz -- The supervenience argument against non-reductive physicalism / Andrew Russo -- Ryle's argument against Cartesian internalism / Agustin Arrieta and Fernando Migura -- Jackson's knowledge argument / Amir Horowitz -- Nagel's "what is it like to be a bat" argument against physicalism / Amy Kind -- Chalmer's zombie argument / Amy Kind -- The argument from revelation / Carlos Mario Muñoz-Suárez -- Searle and the Chinese room argument / Leslie Burkholder -- Part VI. Science and language. Sir Karl Popper's demarcation argument / Liz Stillwaggon Swan -- Kuhn's incommensurability arguments / Liz Stillwaggon Swan and Michael Bruce -- Putnam's no miracles argument / Liz Stillwaggon Swan -- Galileo's falling bodies / Liz Stillwaggon Swan -- Eliminative materialism / Charlotte Blease -- Wittgenstein's private language argument / George Wrisley -- Fodor's argument for linguistic nativism / Majid Amini -- Fodor and the impossibility of learning / Majid Amini -- Quine on the indeterminacy of translation / Robert Sinclair -- Davidson's argument for the principle of charity / Maria Caamaño -- Frege's argument for Platonism / Ivan Kasa -- Mathematical Platonism / Nicolas Pain. Appendix A. Learning the logical lingo. Appendix B. Rules of inference and replacement.

Does the existence of evil call into doubt the existence of God? Show me the argument. Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument.