Prologue: Why truth matters : skepticism as an agent of reason against organized irrationalism

Part I: Known knowns. 1. The truth about post-truth truthiness : why we are not living in a post-truth, postmodern, fact-free world

2. What is truth, anyway? : justified true belief, the principle of universal realism, and why extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

3. The truth about why : causation, correlation, Bayesian reasoning, signal detection theory, and the determination of cause and effect

4. The truth about coincidences and miracles : how to think about highly unlikely events

Part II: Known unknowns. 5. Religious and mythic truths : how to think about the resurrection and other myths

6. Historical truths : the noble dream of pursuing objective truth about the past

7. Moral truths : science and the search for objective universal values

8. Alien truths : UFOs and the search for sky gods

Part III: Known unknowables. 9. The truth about consciousness : what is it like to be you?

10. The truth about free will : determinism, self-determinism, and your future self

11. The truth about god : arguments for and against the divine

12. The truth about existence : why there is something rather than nothing

Epilogue: Like gods : the expanding sphere of knowledge and my god gambit.