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I The Problem Of Evil -- 1: Stating the Problem of Evil -- 2: The Irrelevance of the Amount of Evil -- 3: The Standard by which Divine Acts are Appraised -- 4: Suffering as Punishment -- 5: The Question of an Afterlife -- 6: The 'Soul Making' Theodicy -- 7: The Question of Moral Evil -- 8: The Justification for Creating Opportunities for Virtuous Response -- 9: A New Solution -- 10: The Removal of Objections to the Last Solution -- II Free Will, Men and Machines -- 11: A Conflict Between Religion and Science -- 12: Newcomb's Problem of Choice -- 13: The Unpredictability of Some Human Choices -- 14: Some Queries Concerning the Absolute Incompetence of Predictors -- 15: The Predictor as a Diagnostician -- 16: ?-Machines and ?-Machines -- 17: ?-Machines and ?-Machines -- III The Confirmation of Theism -- 18: Pascal's Wager -- 19: Theism and the Verification Principle -- 20: The Vindication of the Verification Principle -- 21: The Principles Underlying Scientific Method -- 22: Miracles -- 23: The Evidence for Theism -- 24: Theism and Scientific Method.

Aspects of the Theory of Definition -- I / Preliminary Considerations -- Real and Nominal Definitions -- Primitive Concepts: Habits, Conventions, and Laws -- II / Definitional Desiderata -- Vagueness and the Desiderata for Definition -- Definition in a Quinean World -- III / Formal Developments -- Definitions and Definability -- Towards a General Theory of Identifiability -- IV / Epistemic Dimensions -- Epistemic Terms and the Aims of Epistemology -- Rational Definitions and Defining Rationality -- V / Specialized Conceptions -- Idealized Definitions in Physics and Idealized Dispositions -- Inverted Definitions and Their Uses -- VI / Disciplinary Conceptions -- Definitions in Law -- Defining the Divine -- Philosophical Analyses: An Explanation and Defense -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.