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Jackson’s Knowledge Argument is used by opponents of physicalism to cast doubt upon the physicalist’s central claim, that talk of the mental can be reduced to talk purely of the physical. I will now set abou...

The core thesis of moral universalism is that moral claims are ultimately grounded in moral facts, and these facts are what give these claims their truth or falsehood. For moral universalists, the facts that...

MOORE’S REFUTATION Moore believes that contrary to Descartes’ refutation, which I have glossed over for practical reasons, there is no need to appeal to God to prove that the outer world exists. To prove thi...

Jackson's knowledge argument aims to refute Physicalism (the philosophical position that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties, and that the only existing substance is phy...

In epistemology, there are two main schools of thought: the rationalist and the empiricist approach. The rationalist (like Descartes) believes that our main source of knowledge is reasoning and self-reflecti...