PHIL 1000 Study Guide - Solipsism, Formal Methods, Physicalism

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1000
• Professor: Patrick Phillips

Document Summary

At the age of 14, we start to think philosophically about everything. We think of whether anything is really right or wrong or that life has any meaning or whether death is the end. Philosophy does not rely on experiments or observations and it has no formal methods of proof. It"s done by questioning, arguing, tying out ideas and thinking about possible arguments. Its main concern is to question and understand. Knowledge of the world beyond our minds. Knowledge of minds other than our own. Solipsism is thinking if anything actually really exists, leading us to come to a conclusion that our minds are the only things that actually exist. It is a very lonely view and not too many people hold it. There is also the view of skepticism where we do not know whether anything around us exists or not.