Philosophy Resources (page 5)

The natural response to the question Do you know that you have hands? is Of course. Our knowledge that we have hands seems to be one of our most basic and certain ...

How coherent is the S khyan doctrine of the teleological evolution of an insensate universe, without God, for the liberation of the self?The Sankhyan doctrine posits a teleologica...

Students always ask me how they can write better essays. Philosophical essay writing is a particular skill and, to get the best marks, you have to write in a way different to how you ...

In today's society the trust and (sometimes blind) faith put in science is both marveling and somewhat ironic. For an area of "knowledge; that is predicated on the belief that no j...

The Why and How of Effective AltruismA companion piece to my Charity Science Christmas fundraisingtw/c: discussion of disability.What do we owe to the world’s poor? When does charity ...

In Defence of (Effective) Animal AdvocacyBeyond vegetarianismtw/c: discussion of animal violence. This article assumes some commitment on the part of the reader to the case for AL.Ima...

Introduction The field of epistemology that deals with the question of disagreement is populated by two families of contrasting vi...

Marx and Freud, though their views on human nature are vastly at odds with one another, both radically destablised the assumptions of philosophical thought by revealing the irrel...

This claim looks to answer the question that follows on from the acceptance of the truth of determinism, that is, whether or not free will can exist if determinism is true. Having ...

"Does Aristotle show in Book X that contemplative activity meets the conditions of eudaimonia set out in Book I better than ethically virtuous activity? Does Aristotle's appeal to...