Philosophy Resources (page 9)

When I first told my (South-Asian) parents that I wanted to study Philosophy at University, their first question was: "What on earth are you going to do with that?!". To be fair to...

The claim that the human mind starts 'tabula rasa' is associated with the empiricist school of epistemology. Empiricists, such as Locke and Hume, assert that all substantive knowledge...

This article will maintain that the higher-order approach is the most plausible way to explain the phenomenon of consciousness. I will appeal to two entirely different versions of hig...

In 1999 The Matrix was released. In it, the protagonist Neo (Keanu Reeves) is approached by a mysterious group of leather clad rebels who invite him to pass from the world of illu...

THE LANGUAGE IN BERKELEY AND BECKETT The language, first understood as a divine ontological creation, is doubted in its power to create being and to organise it in the passin...

As the reality of increasing oil scarcity ushers in of an era of 'extreme oil' - oil extracted from increasingly remote and inaccessible sources - many areas once thought off-limits ...

Examine the argument in Donovan's article: 'Can we know God by experience?' In his essay 'Can we know God by experience?' Peter Donovan questions whether it is possible to hav...

In his Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes`s once-in-a-lifetime project of doubting what could be logically doubted aimed to challenge the accepted philosophical systems of sch...

For those of you who don't know the trolley problem, it is the classic philosophical scenario linked with utilitarianism; "You are in a moving trolley along a rail track (moving at...

People often question the existence of god. The important questions at hand aren't just "oh hey does X exist" We need to have the balls to ask ourselves "if X exists, is the rig...