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Judith Jarvis Thompson, through the use of analogy, argues that abortion is morally permissible, but only in three certain cases. These cases are 1) if the mother has been raped, 2) if contraception was used...

A Gettier problem (named after Edmund Gettier) is a reaction to a specific way of thinking about knowledge. So in order to understand what Gettier problems are concerned with, we must first consider the theo...

This question is an example question from the ethics paper in the Philosophy IB course. If you're school has chosen for you to study the ethics paper, you will need to be familiar with the tension between co...

The most important part of any long piece of philosophical work is evaluation. How strong/weak is an argument? What makes it strong? Are there any counters to these arguments? Are these counters strong/weak?...

The free will problem is a metaphysical problem in Philosophy that arises when two deeply-held views come into conflict: the view that every event can be explained in terms of antecedent events and condition...