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In response to Berkley's idealist conviction that matter does not exist independently from mind, Russell counters with a series of arguments which aim to show that there is indeed a w...

Hobbes argues that the creation of a Leviathan is in everyone's best interests; ensuring their preservation. Through the surrender of the population's "right to govern themselves" to ...

Ethics: enquiry into the principles of how we should behave, especially towards other people. Utilitarianism: a popular ethical system which says that the right decisions are those w...

Introduction: Mackie's attack on moral objectivity (which he calls moral scepticism) has, in his summary, five distinct prongs: i) the relativity of some important starting points ...

Sample Foreword In my opinion those who first attributed a sacred character to this disease were the sort of people we nowadays call witch-doctors, faith-healers, charlatans a...

What is the evidence for relationalism about space, and how should we critically evaluate it? In this essay I will critically evaluate the evidence for 'relationalism about space' ...

`I maintain that, if that is your position, it is absurd for you to say that a man often does bad things though he knows they are bad and could refrain from doing them, because he is ...

On Propositions as Sets of Possible Worlds In a recent paper Aviv Hoffmann argues that analyses of propositions as sets of possible worlds are to be rejected because the costs ...

Introduction to course handout for AS Philosophy AS PHILOSOPHY AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY 1: REASON AND EXPERIENCE Note: These notes are an overview of the entire syllabus...

Postmodernism is a difficult term to define. But postmodernism is seen as emerging or growing out of modernism. Mary Klages states that, 'Modernism is the movement roughly conterminou...