Logic / Philosophy

Course summary

IB Philosophy invites the development of perspectives that welcome diversity and awareness in an international context. The course provides an opportunity for you to engage with some of the world’s most interesting and influential thinkers and to explore fundamental questions. It will stimulate your intellectual curiosity and develop highly transferable skills such as the ability to formulate arguments clearly, to make reasoned judgements and to evaluate highly complex and multifaceted issues. • Stimulate intellectual curiosity through the investigation of What Is A Human Being? Whether humans have free will? Is the mind distinct from the body? What it means to be a person? • Develop philosophical knowledge and research skills through the study of moral philosophy including ethical theories exploring issues such as environmental and medical ethics.. • Study great philosophical texts, including Descartes' Meditations. • Create an independent philosophical analysis of a non-philosophical material.