Historical introduction to philosophy

Plato's cave. Do our perceptions reveal reality or just a shadow of reality?

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Welcome to Historical Introduction to Philosophy.

Introduction: What is Philosophy?

• General Introduction
• Philosophical Method
• Presocratics and Socrates

Philosophy of Religion

• Faith and Reason
• Arguments for God
• The Problem of Evil

Epistemology

• Epistemology
• Truth, Objectivity, and Relativism
• The Challenge of Skepticism

The Philosophy of Mind

• The Mind-Body Problem
• Theories of Mind
• Personal Identity

Free-will and Determinism

• Determinism and the Problem of Free-Will
• Libertarianism
• Compatibilism

Ethics

• Ethics
• Formalism and Deontological Ethics
• Consequentialism

Metaphysics

What exists, what are the most general properties of things, is there a god, is life an illusion, what can be said to be real?

Logic

• Logic

See Also

• Introduction to Philosophy

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