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- 1. The Philosophiser A compendium of philosophical questions to get you thinking about thinking. Made by Mike Gershon – mikegershon@hotmail.com
- 19. What (if any) is the relationship between the mind and the body?
- 20. Do space and time exist independently of human perceptions?
- 21. Are you the same person now as you were twenty minutes ago?
- 31. Is it true to say, as Socrates did, that ‘The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.’?
- 44. Do men and women require a strong central power to protect them from one another?
- 46. Do men and women seek happiness within a social system?
- 52. What ought the ideal relationship between individual and state to be?
- 56. Is it ever just for the state to use violence?
- 57. Is it a necessary condition of a state that it has a monopoly on the use of force?
- 67. Is one more free when contemplating beauty and/or perfection?
- 69. How does a sense of beauty differ from the idea of taste?
- 76. What is the relationship between language and power?
- 78. What is the relationship between language and the world?
- 79. To what extent is our description of the world an interpretation of it?
- 80. Do the written and spoken word represent experience in the same way?
- 85. What is the difference between ‘good and bad’ and ‘good and evil’?
- 89. Do we have any good reason to think that God does or does not exist?
- 90. Is belief in God a way of life rather than a proposition with some sort of truth value?
- 91. Can notions of truth and falsity be applied to religious questions?
- 94. Is there a difference between science and scientific method?
- 95. Are we able to definitively prove the truth of scientific facts or theories?
- 97. Maths is predicated on deductive logic. Is it thus a falsehood to apply its methods to science, where experiments follow inductive method?
- 99. Can a single account of the difference between science and non-science be made?
- 102. What criteria could we use in order to say a scientific theory has successfully explained a phenomenom?
- 105. To what extent are scientific observations conditioned by the theories or paradigms to which they relate?
- 107. What is the proper unit for study of the human past?
- 108. Are there any patterns we can discern through the study of the human past?
- 113. Is a description of an event simply a construction of some series of things as an event?
- 114. Is there any knowledge which we cannot doubt?
- 115. How might the experience of time condition our understanding of the world?
- 116. Should we accept the future is uncertain as far as our knowledge is concerned?
- 117. What are the implications of uncertainty (regarding the future) for our actions?
- 125. Do words such as ‘nothing’ refer to what we think they refer to?
- 127. What does it mean to describe a person or a choice as rational?
- 139. If an animal could speak, would you be able to understand it?
- 145. How do the terms for mental states that occur in ordinary natural languages get their meaning?
- 150. What is the relationship between law and morality?
- 153. Is a person responsible for the totality of their actions?
- 157. To what extent should we be sceptical about our own capacities to know?
- 166. Why have so many people been concerned to try and create a ‘science of ethics’?
- 169. What is the relationship between reason and emotion?
- 170. What might be the difference between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description?