Roadmap

Epistemology

3.1.1 Knowledge and definition

3.1.1 - Knowledge types and the nature of definition
3.1.1 - The tripartite view - justified true belief
3.1.1 - Gettier and lucky true belief
3.1.1 - Post-Gettier analyses of knowledge

3.1.2 Perception as a source of knowledge

3.1.2 - Direct realism and the immediate objects of perception
3.1.2 - Problems for direct realism
3.1.2 - Indirect realism, sense-data and Locke
3.1.2 - Indirect realism and scepticism about the external world
3.1.2 - Berkeley against indirect realism
3.1.2 - Berkeley idealism and its problems

3.1.3 Reason as a source of knowledge

3.1.3 - Innatism - Plato and Leibniz
3.1.3 - Empiricist responses to innatism
3.1.3 - Intuition, deduction and Descartes
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3.1.3 - Empiricist challenges to Descartes
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3.1.4 Philosophical scepticism

3.1.4 - Philosophical scepticism and waves of doubt
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3.1.4 - Responses to scepticism
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Moral philosophy

3.2.1 Normative ethical theories

3.2.1 - Utilitarianism - utility and happiness
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3.2.1 - Act, rule and problems for utilitarianism
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3.2.1 - Kantian ethics - good will, duty and imperatives
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3.2.1 - Kantian ethics - categorical imperative formulations
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3.2.1 - Issues for Kantian ethics
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3.2.1 - Aristotelian virtue ethics - eudaimonia, function and virtue
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3.2.1 - Virtue ethics - responsibility, practical wisdom and issues
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3.2.2 Applied ethics

3.2.2 - Applied ethics - stealing and lying
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3.2.2 - Applied ethics - simulated killing and eating animals
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3.2.3 Meta-ethics

3.2.3 - Moral realism, naturalism and non-naturalism
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3.2.3 - Challenges to moral realism
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3.2.3 - Moral anti-realism - error theory, emotivism and prescriptivism
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Metaphysics of God

3.3.1 The nature of God

3.3.1 - Divine attributes and time
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3.3.1 - Incoherence challenges to God
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3.3.2 Arguments relating to the existence of God

3.3.2 - Ontological arguments
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3.3.2 - Objections to ontological arguments
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3.3.2 - Teleological and design arguments
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3.3.2 - Problems for design arguments
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3.3.2 - Cosmological arguments
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3.3.2 - Problems for cosmological arguments
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3.3.2 - The problem of evil
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3.3.2 - Free will defence and soul-making
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3.3.3 Religious language

3.3.3 - Religious language - verification and eschatological response
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3.3.3 - The University Debate - falsification, the Partisan and bliks
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Metaphysics of mind

3.4.1 Features of mental states

3.4.1 - Mental states, qualia and intentionality
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3.4.2 Dualist theories

3.4.2 - Substance dualism - indivisibility and conceivability
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3.4.2 - Property dualism - zombies and Mary
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3.4.2 - Issues for dualism
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3.4.3 Physicalist theories

3.4.3 - Philosophical behaviourism
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3.4.3 - Mind-brain type identity theory
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3.4.3 - Eliminative materialism
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3.4.4 Functionalism

3.4.4 - Functionalism and qualia objections
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