PHLA10H3 Study Guide - Ethical Subjectivism, Deductive Reasoning, Inductive Reasoning
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Chapter 1 what is philosophy: main branches of philosophy: logic, metaphysics, epistemology, value theory, metaphysics: part of the philosophy that attempts to describe what there is, four central philosophy problems: Knowledge: true believe is some of your believe happen to be true, philosophical problem about knowledge: one philosophical position we consider is that human beings don"t know anything. (philosophical skepticism) Mind and brain are identical, although they are different words, they name the same thing. Opposite: dualism says that the mind and the brain are different things. Human freedom: whether we can be free agents if our personalities are the results of factors outside our control. Ethics: whether there are ethical facts, clashes of opinion occur in subjective realm (one human mind disagreeing with another, physics exists in objective realm (facts exist independently of anybody"s thinking about them, they are out there) d. Philosophical questions are very general: solipsism: the idea that your mind is the only thing that exists.
