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Firstly, its named after Anselm of Canterbury and is called an ontological argument because it is intended to demonstrate the existence of something; namely God in this case. Formalised the argument runs som...

There is a neuroscientist Mary who has been confined to a black and white room all her life, she has never seen any colour except black or white. However, she knows everything she can know about the physical...

Nozick asks us to imagine being placed into a virtual reality machine, this machine will replicate a life of extreme pleasure and happiness, with various pleasures and minimum pain. If we plug in we will not...

Hempel’s analytic behaviourism is the view that mental states are a private phenomenon, so cannot be verified in a public, intersubjective sense. Thus, we have to talk about them in terms that are empiricall...

The ontological argument is an a priori argument for the existence of God. It is generally considered a part of natural theology - the use of human reason to know things about God independently of any action...