The Big Questions of Philosophy

Learn to think clearly, shun fallacies, and reach your own conclusions as you confront the questions that have puzzled generations of philosophers.

• By This Professor
• 01: How Do We Do Philosophy?
• 02: Why Should We Trust Reason?
• 03: How Do We Reason Carefully?
• 04: How Do We Find the Best Explanation?
• 05: What Is Truth?
• 06: Is Knowledge Possible?
• 07: What Is the Best Way to Gain Knowledge?
• 08: Do We Know What Knowledge Is?
• 09: When Can We Trust Testimony?
• 10: Can Mystical Experience Justify Belief?
• 11: Is Faith Ever Rational?
• 12: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
• 13: What Is God Like?
• 14: How Could God Allow Moral Evil?
• 15: Why Would God Cause Natural Evil?
• 16: Are Freedom and Foreknowledge Compatible?
• 17: Do Our Souls Make Us Free?
• 18: What Does It Mean to Be Free?
• 19: What Preserves Personal Identity?
• 20: Are Persons Mere Minds?
• 21: Are Persons Just Bodies?
• 22: Are You Really You?
• 23: How Does the Brain Produce the Mind?
• 24: What Do Minds Do, If Anything?
• 25: Could Machines Think?
• 26: Does God Define the Good?
• 27: Does Happiness Define the Good?
• 28: Does Reason Define the Good?
• 29: How Ought We to Live?
• 30: Why Bother Being Good?
• 31: Should Government Exist?
• 32: What Justifies a Government?
• 33: How Big Should Government Be?
• 34: What Are the Limits of Liberty?
• 35: What Makes a Society Fair or Just?
• 36: What Is the Meaning of Life?