The veil of perception is the idea that we do not perceive the external world directly. Instead, we are only…
The technical definition of intentionality is something like: the property of mental states (e.g. thoughts, beliefs, desires, hopes) which consists…
Ockham’s Razor is an abductive reasoning principle. In other words, it’s a form of reasoning that says something is likely…
Global scepticism is such a classic of epistemology that it’s made its way into popular culture with films like The…
In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume applies his empiricist philosophy to a fundamental concept in metaphysics and science:…
In philosophy, modality is the study of possibility and necessity – of what is true, what could be true, and…
The Frege-Geach problem (sometimes called the embedding problem) is a challenge to moral non-cognitivism – the view that moral judgements…
René Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) begins from a position of radical doubt – questioning everything that can possibly…
David Hume is one of the most famous defenders of empiricism – the view that all knowledge ultimately comes from…
“Cogito ergo sum” or “I think therefore I am” is probably the most famous argument in all of philosophy. But…