In his article, “What is it like to be a bat?” Thomas Nagel argues that there are facts about the conscious experience that are...

Are the mind and the body separate entities, or one and the same thing? If they are separate, how do they relate? If they are one...

"The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how and why sentient organisms have qualia or phenomenal experiences—how...

"Utilitarians believe that the purpose of morality is to make life better by increasing the amount of good things (such as pleasure and...

In the metaphysics of identity, the ship of Theseus is a thought experiment that raises the question of whether an object that has had...

Parfit asks us “to imagine entering a "teletransporter", a machine that puts you to sleep, records your molecular composition, breaking...

Emotivism... holds that the statements “you should be kind” and “murder is evil” are equivalent to saying “Yay, kindness!” and “Boo,...

"Ethical or moral relativism is the position in meta-ethics that morality is not universal, but that moral truths can be determined by...

"In philosophy of mind, Mary’s Room is a thought experiment meant to demonstrate the non-physical nature of mental states. It is an...

Zombies in philosophy are imaginary creatures designed to illuminate problems about consciousness and its relation to the physical world....

Physicalism (also known as Materialistic Monism...) is the philosophical position that everything which exists is no more extensive than...

Qualia are the phenomenal qualities of experiences—the raw felt qualities of sensations, emotions, thoughts, or anything else. They are...

Existentialism is a philosophy which emphasises that each individual person is free and responsible for their own actions and self. We...

Quasi-realism is a view on ethics by Simon Blackburn, which attempts to steer between different problems faced by more well-known views...

Moral Realism is the view 'that there exist such things as moral facts and moral values, and that these are objective and independent of...

Descartes' famous 'I think therefore I am' is sometimes cited as the resetting of Western philosophy in the 17th century. It's often...

Plato’s famous allegory of the cave comes from book VII of The Republic. In it, some prisoners are shackled, unable to turn around. There...

Some ideas about Free Will suggest that we are free to make our own decisions. Some ideas suggest that the universe works like clockwork...

Robert Nozick proposed this thought experiment to challenge the hedonist view that pleasure, in one form or another, is what we seek in...