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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
PART I. THE HUMAN VIEW OF PURPOSE
Chapter 1. Purpose-Driven Life: Why We Think That Everything Happens for a Reason (and It's All about Us)
Chapter 2. Don't Believe Everything You Think: The Unreliability of Subjective Perception in Discerning Pattern and Purpose
Chapter 3. Unrealistic Optimism and Expecting the Universe to Care: The Universe Has No Purpose, but We Do
Chapter 4. Persistence of Belief in a Purposeful Universe—Despite a Decline of Religious Faith
PART II. THE SPONTANEOUS, UNGUIDED UNIVERSE
Chapter 5. Science's Astounding Inroads into Addressing the “Big Questions”: How Everything Came to Be, and the Scientific Approach to Uncertainty
Chapter 6. The Universe's Spontaneous, Unguided Creativity: Complexity, Self-Organization, and the Phenomenon of Emergence
Chapter 7. Mind from Brain: How Matter Came to Perceive, Think, and Know Itself
PART III. THE SPONTANEOUS, UNGUIDED EMERGENCE OF PURPOSE AND MORALITY
Chapter 8. The Emergence of Purpose: The Evolution of Goal-Directedness and Will
Chapter 9. The Emergence of Morality: The Evolution of Cooperation and Compassion
PART IV. MEANING-MAKING WITHIN AND WITHOUT RELIGION
Chapter 10. Where Does This Leave Religion and Spirituality? Differing Definitions of God, and a Continuing Role for Religion
Chapter 11. Making Life Meaningful in the Face of Anxiety and Adversity—in a Universe That Is Not Itself Purposeful or Caring
Chapter 12. Deriving Inspiration from a Complex, Naturalistic View—of the Universe, Life, and the Course of Human Civilization
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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