General Philosophy

8.4 Persons, Humans and Brains

Part 8.4. The final part of this series. Explores the distinction between mind and body and...

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8.3 Problems for Locke's View of Personal Identity

Part 8.3. Criticisms of Locke's view of personal identity; if personal identity is dependent on...

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8.2 John Locke on Personal Identity

Part 8.2. Looks at John Locke's view of personal identity; how consciousness and 'personal...

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8.1 Introduction to Personal Identity

Part 8.1. Introduces the concept of personal identity, what is it to be a person, whether someone...

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7.4 Making Sense of Free Will and Moral Responsibility

Part 7.4. A brief explanation of Hume's argument for sentimentalism and Robert Kane's views on...

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7.3 Hume on Liberty and Necessity

Part 7.3. Looks at Hume's views on liberty and its relationship to causal necessity; that we have...

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7.2 Different Concepts of Freedom

Part 7.2. Looks at Hobbes' and Hume's views of free will and the three concepts of freedom, and...

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7.1 Free Will, Determinism and Choice

Part 7.1. Explores the problem of free will and the ideas of moral responsibility, determinism...

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6.4 Making Sense of Perception

Part 6.4. A brief overview of contemporary accounts of perception; including phenomenalism (that...

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6.3 Abstraction and Idealism

Part 6.3. Criticisms of the resemblance theory of perception and an introduction to idealism -...

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6.2 Problems with Resemblance

Part 6.2. Explores Berkeley's and Locke's arguments concerning the resemblance of qualities and...

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6.1 Introduction to Primary and Secondary Qualities

Part 6.1. Introduces the problem of perception (and the distinction between the world and what we...

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5.4 Scepticism, Externalism and the Ethics of Belief

Part 5.4. Looks at the role the concept of knowledge plays in life, the different levels of...

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5.3 Gettier and Other Complications

Part 5.3. The difference between internalist and externalist accounts of knowledge; whether we...

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5.2 The Traditional Analysis of Knowledge

Part 5.2. Explores the idea of conscious and unconscious knowledge (should a person know that...

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5.1 Introduction to Knowledge

Part 5.1. Looks at the problem of knowledge; how can we know what we know, three types of...

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