Our free philosophy essay examples cover a range of popular topics in this field of study, such as the nature of existence, knowledge, free will, truth and ethics.
In his paper, ‘Is there a right to pornography’? Ronald Dworkin argues people have the right to consume and produce pornography. In defense of pornography, Dworkin claims all people are entitled to the right of moral interdependence, which entails ‘people have the right not to suffer disadvantage in the distribution of social goods and opportunities, … Read more
Selfishness is placing care or concern with oneself or one’s own profits above the well-being of others. This is one of the character trait of every human in the world since they were born and this characteristic of human being will keep xxxxx . Shirley Jackson explores this premise in her short story ‘The Lottery’ … Read more
What is meant by “nature”? Mill identifies in the first sense, the nature of any given thing is an aggregate of its powers and properties so nature is “the ensemble or aggregate of the powers and properties of all things”. In this sense of nature practically everything we know is “nature” and most of these … Read more
Searle’s definition of ‘strong AI’ can be summarized, “a machine can think simply as a result of instantiating a computer program (Searle, p.203). In this sense, by creating and running a program, if the program can perform and respond in the same way as a human so as to be indistinguishable, then this would be … Read more
The ‘indirect duties’ view is we have no duties directly to animals, we owe them nothing and we can do nothing that wrongs them. Instead, we can do wrong acts involving animals and so we have duties regarding them rather than to them (Regan, p.224). An example of this view is, if you were to … Read more
