Mais conteúdo relacionado Semelhante a The philosophiser[1] (20) The philosophiser[1]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?