Philosophy is bursting with paradoxes: Zeno’s paradoxes of motion, the Liar Paradox, the Sorites Paradox, and also modern puzzles like…
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What is the point of learning about ethics? An ethics course should teach you how to recognize a moral issue…
The reasoning by which Galileo and his contemporaries defended the Copernican model of the solar system (the “heliocentric” model –…
You are different now from how you were ten years ago; but still you are one and the same person,…
A game is (perhaps by definition) an activity that lacks a serious point. Yet, we humans spend a lot of…