What’s Applied Ethics?
In moral philosophy, applied ethics is the branch that consists of the analysis of specific, controversial moral issues that primarily concern private and public life within society (1). However, for […]
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Category Archives: Philosophy
Virtue Ethics [Normative Ethics]
Virtue ethics (from Greek: arête) stresses the importance of an individual’s character when she is deciding how to act morally and ethically (1). It is also a theory with its […]
16 Important Metaphysical Terms Everyone Should Know
The philosophical branch of metaphysics asks a number of crucial questions that all thoughtful people would do well to engage. Metaphysics is ultimately the study of reality and the nature […]
What Are Axiomatic & Properly Basic Beliefs? Definitions & Examples.
What is a Properly Basic Belief? In philosophy a properly basic belief is a belief that is viewed as justified on the basis of experience or intuition or both. Such […]
Metaphysical Zombies & The Problem of Other Minds
In metaphysics, the philosophical branch that deals with questions pertaining to the nature of reality, there is the term some times used called “metaphysical zombie,” (MZ) coined by professor David […]
The Correspondence Theory of Truth & A Response to Relativism.
This essay seeks to briefly examine the concept of truth. It also examines relativism, some arguments proposed by relativists, as well as outline a few challenges a relativistic philosophy faces. […]
What Are the Laws of Logic?
There are three basic laws that all people use when they engage in rational discourse. These are [1] the Law of Identity, [2] the Law of Non-Contradiction, and [3] the […]
What is Consciousness? Characteristics & Working Towards a Definition.
The subject of consciousness has been a fertile landscape for a great deal of disagreement between philosophers specializing in the philosophy of mind and other philosophical disciplines. One philosopher of […]
Epistemic Theories
As large section of the philosophical branch of epistemology is the question of epistemic justification. Justification attempts to determine what grounds there are (or what justification there is) for one […]
What is Metaphysics? Branches & Questions
Metaphysics, formed through a combination of the words Metá (which means transcendent over) and physiká (physics), is a lively branch of philosophy that specializes in the study of existence and […]
