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Summarise the Metaethical Taxonomy of Ethical Naturalism.

Ethical naturalism is a realist cognitivist doctrine that states that moral judgements are declarative propositions that inform us about mind independent and meaningful information in the world which can be ...
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Describe Wittgenstein's approach to reality in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

Wittgenstein appears to assert a form of metaphysical pluralism which is made of independent objects. However, these objects do not exist in isolation, and combine together to create situations or what he ca...
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Apply the assertions of a Substance Dualist on the question of the existence of a soul.

Substance dualists would assert that there is indeed a soul. Substance dualism is the belief that there are two distinct ontological substances which causally interact, the immaterial mind and material body....
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Outline the main threads of thought in Preformatism.

Preformatism is the supposed existence of all the parts of an organism in rudimentary form in the egg or the seed and is inferred in the early writings of the Christian Church fathers. They made no developme...
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What does Kant entail when he speaks of his epistemological 'Copernican Revolution'?

Kant's 'Copernican Revolution' in epistemology suggested that cosmology, particle physics, theology and free will/determinism claims involve questions that are naturally raised by the structure of the mind, ...
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