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Philosophy of science for beginners: what makes a claim scientific?
An engineer's introduction to the big questions about science: how to tell it from pseudo-science, what a failed prediction proves, whether electrons are real, and what counts as an explanation.
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What is aesthetics? A beginner’s guide
Six questions that make up the philosophy of beauty and art, explained for someone meeting them for the first time, with a restorer's view of why they matter.
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Free will explained: the main positions, and what physics does and doesn’t settle
A physics reader's guide to the four classic answers, the options that don't fit the usual grid, and the question underneath them all.
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Philosophy of religion: a beginner’s guide to the big arguments
What philosophers of religion actually do, the main arguments for and against God, and the questions that open up when you look beyond a single tradition, written for believers, doubters and the merely curious.
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Ethical theories explained: a beginner’s guide to how philosophers judge right and wrong
Consequences, duties, character, contracts, care, roles and community: what each theory tells you to look at, and why they agree more often than you'd think.
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Political philosophy in ten questions
A beginner's map of the questions political philosophers ask, from why anyone should obey a state to what we owe people beyond our borders, with answers drawn from several traditions.
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The mind–body problem: a beginner’s guide
How can a thought move an arm? The main answers, from Descartes and Elisabeth to functionalism, with stops in classical India and eighteenth-century Wittenberg.
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Logic for beginners: what makes an argument valid
A first introduction to the single most useful idea in logic, with the tests you can use on any argument and the mistakes almost everyone makes.
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Is morality objective? A beginner’s guide to meta-ethics
What are we doing when we call something wrong? A teacher's map of the main answers, from the Euthyphro to error theory.
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What is epistemology? A beginner’s guide to the theory of knowledge
Four questions, two ways of asking them, and why a lucky guess is the best place to start.
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