§-Philosophy Q&A

Philosophy Q&A by dot point

A short Q&A bank for every TAS Philosophy syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.

Epistemology

Sources of knowledge: empiricism and rationalism

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Defining knowledge: Plato's justified true belief and the Gettier counterexamples

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The limits of knowledge: Cartesian doubt and Humean scepticism about induction

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Ethics

Metaethics: moral realism, relativism and the status of moral claims

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Comparing the three major normative theories: consequences, duties and character

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Free Will and Determinism

Free will and determinism: hard determinism, libertarianism and compatibilism

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Implications of free will positions for moral responsibility and punishment

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Life, the Universe and Everything

The cosmological argument and competing accounts of the origin of the universe

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The teleological argument, the watchmaker analogy and fine-tuning

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The problem of evil and responses to it

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Logic and Critical Reasoning

Analysing arguments: premises, conclusions, validity and soundness

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Recognising and explaining informal fallacies in everyday argument

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Metaphysics

Personal identity: bodily, psychological and no-self theories

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Philosophy of Mind

Behaviourism and functionalism as accounts of the mental

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Substance dualism and the problem of mind-body interaction

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Monism and physicalism: the mind as the brain

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The Good Life

Theories of wellbeing: hedonism, desire-satisfaction and objective list accounts

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