Logic / Philosophy

Course summary

Philosophical questions are concerned with what is fundamental, and give little clue as to how we should go about answering them. Indeed, part of the philosopher’s job is to discover or invent a suitable method for uncovering fundamental truths about what there is, how much we can know and how we ought to behave. The questions tend to be abstract, contentious and hard; answers are often tentative, and they rarely satisfy everybody. But this shouldn’t be taken to imply that there is no truth to be found: as with the study of natural science, the study of philosophy requires us to take reasons seriously while engaging rigorously with some of the most important and pressing questions there are.