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/ PPE1001 Introduction to Philosophy
1. What is philosophy?
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1.1. Defining philosophy
1.2. The way of evaluating argument
1.3. A brief history of philosophy
2. How do we know anything?
3
2.1. The Cogito arguments of Descartes
2.2. Hume’s problem of induction
2.3. Truth and human understanding
3. Do we have free will?
2
3.1. Determinism and Indeterminism
3.2. Freedom and moral responsibility
4. Can machine think?
2
4.1. Searle’s Chinese room argument
4.2. Dennett on artificial intelligence
5. Does God exist?
2
5.1. Aquinas’s five proofs for the existence of God
5.2. The problem of evil
6. What makes something an artwork?
2
6.1. Aesthetics and beauty
6.2. Natural and man-made
7. What is a meaningful life?
3
7.1. Supernaturalism and naturalism
7.2. Subjectivism and Objectivism
7.3. Nihilism
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