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  2. A “Philosophical Problem” is like a super tough riddle about life and the universe that even the smartest people can’t quite solve. Imagine you’ve found a strange puzzle box at a garage sale with no instructions.

  3. The mindbody problem is the problem of determining the relationship between the human body and the human mind. Philosophical positions on this question are generally predicated on either a reduction of one to the other, or a belief in the discrete coexistence of both.

  4. Many philosophical problems occur when moral, personal, political, religious, and scientific modes of understanding (there are others of course) provide conflicting accounts of the significance of the same facts.

  5. 3 days ago · As I remember Avrum Stroll and Richard H. Popkin, in their highly readable book, Introduction to Philosophy, isolate seven characteristics of a philosophical problem. These characteristics serve as a good introduction to mark some of the perplexing kinds of problems which can arise in philosophy.

  6. Oct 16, 2023 · These thought experiments introduce students to the kind of disciplined thought required in philosophy, and awaken their intellectual curiosity. Featuring a clear and conversational writing style that doesn't dilute the ideas, the value of the book is in its simplicity-in both format and tone.

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  7. Nov 5, 2014 · John Kekes, The Nature of Philosophical Problems: Their Causes and Implications, Oxford University Press, 2014, 238pp., $55.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780198712756. The author's Introduction begins with a quote from Ludwig Wittgenstein: What is the use of studying philosophy if all it does for you is to enable you to talk with some plausibility about some ...

  8. What is Philosophy? One way of addressing this question is to point out that “philosophy” begins where assumption and opinion breakdown. This is to say that philosophy proposes problems, and the problems philosophy proposes lead to the development of critical ways of thinking, examining, and conceptualizing.

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