(Causal) determinism is the position that everything that happens is caused by a previous state of affairs, and so knowing all there is to know about a closed system implies that you can deduce its...
In ancient Athens, the philosopher Socrates was followed by a lineage of students, and later teachers, beginning with Plato and Aristotle. In the 16th Century, the Renaissance painter Raphael depic...
In ancient Athens, the philosopher Socrates was followed by a lineage of students, and later teachers, beginning with Plato and Aristotle. In the 16th Century, the Renaissance painter Raphael depic...
The thought experiment called "Mary's Room", originating with Australian philosopher Frank Jackson in 1982, exemplifies the knowledge argument for the reality of the mental world. In it, Mary spend...
(Causal) determinism is the position that everything that happens is caused by a previous state of affairs, and so knowing all there is to know about a closed system implies that you can deduce its...
Solipsism is a philosophical position in metaphysics or epistemology in which only ones own mind is known, or believed, to exist. This T-shirt riffs on the idea by saying "nobody ever gets my jokes...