Alrighty then! Time for the solution to that tricky little logic puzzle, the Wason Card Problem. I was impressed! I have many…

Ho ho! Today I have a fun little philosophical puzzle for you that you can impress your friends with (after getting it right…

Moral Naturalism - The target of the Open Question Argument - seeks to identify moral properties with natural (worldly)…

Onto Expressivism (which comes under the Non-cognitivist camp). Here, philosophers are concerned with value. They don't think…

Before jumping into the Expressivist pool, we need somebackground on the debate surrounding Moral Judgement Internalism and Moral…

Alrighty then. Time for metaethical mayhem! G.E.Moore's Open Question Argument (the OQA, also known as the Naturalistic Fallacy)…

Back to School! I've entered my final year at University and am taking 3 modules: 'Metaethics' and 'Kant's Critical Philosophy'…

In his 'Treatise', Hume targets rationalism and is most noted for saying that 'reason is the slave of the passions' and…

Kant is known for his work the 'The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals' (or just the 'Groundwork') and his Categorical…

Aristotle’s Nicomachean ethics focus on the virtues (aretê) or 'excellences of character’ and as such he is known as a virtue…

I'll be writing about the various main strands of Moral Philosophy over the coming days as a form of revision. I'll be looking at…

"What is your aim in Philosophy?"

Here I consider a couple of other responses to skepticism interesting in their own right. Both Externalist and Internalist…

Internalist views could be said to lead to considering normativity as an issue in Epistemology. That is, what it is we 'should'…

We have our basic Justified True Belief (JTB) account of knowledge.

Tricky, tricky. What a mess of a debate this is. I'll give it my best shot to clarify.

Okay! Brace yourselves for a tricky piece of work. (Well, it was tricky for me...) I'll do my best to give an accurate summary of…

Gettier cases! Cases of our beloved Justified True Belief (JTB) account of knowledge gone wrong! Edmund Gettier famously gave…

As we saw last time, the standard Closure Argument for knowledge seems to hold some problems. Indeed, it even gives fuel to the…

Okay! Back into Philosophy again. The focus over the next few days will be Epistemology (the theory of knowledge). I wrote a…

Moral Anti-Realists tell a different story to that of Moral Realists. According to them, there are no moral facts or properties.…

Let's begin the debate by focussing on the possibility that there are objectively existing moral facts. Realist views accept the…

Also known as 'Moderate' or 'Actualist' Modal Realism.

Okay, so we're well under way. We have a theory of Possible Worlds, which looks nice and really helps us (okay, perhaps just…

Whatnow? Realism? And Anti-Real-isms? Since this is the first time I've written about Realism and Anti-Realism, perhaps I should…

You've probably heard of it, Descartes' well-known statement. 'Cogito Ergo Sum' - 'I think, therefore I am'. But have you ever…