Understanding Philosophy: Figures, Problems, and Ideas

  1. Socrates: How a Philosopher Who Left No Writings Changed Philosophy
  2. Plato: What Is the World of Forms?
  3. Aristotle: From Substance to the Four Causes
  4. Descartes: Why Modern Philosophy Begins with Doubt
  5. David Hume: How Empiricism Leads to Scepticism
  6. Heidegger: What Does It Mean to Ask the Question of Being Again?
  7. What Does Rousseau Mean by the General Will?
  8. Did Rousseau’s State of Nature Ever Really Exist?
  9. Why Does Kant Distinguish Appearances from Things in Themselves?
  10. Why Does Hume Think Causation Is Not Directly Given in Experience?
  11. What Does “I Think, Therefore I Am” Actually Prove?
  12. What Does Nietzsche Really Mean by “God Is Dead”?
  13. Why Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Is More Than an Allegory of Knowledge
  14. How Does Kant Respond to Hume’s Problem of Causation?
  15. How Does Heidegger’s Being Differ from Ordinary Existence?
  16. Why Does Wittgenstein Say the Limits of Language Are the Limits of the World?
  17. Is the Subject Necessary for Knowledge?
  18. Can Knowledge Exist Without a Knowing Subject?
  19. Does Language Describe the World or Reconstruct It?
  20. Must AI Become a Subject Before It Can Possess Knowledge?