Philosophy for decisions, disagreements and ordinary life.
Philosophy for decisions, disagreements and ordinary life. Explore focused guides, useful examples and questions worth asking.
Untangle a disagreement →
Rawls’s veil of ignorance removes knowledge of your own social position from a thought experiment about fair principles, while leaving general knowledge available.
Explore the Ship of Theseus through material, continuity and reconstruction, then test which meaning of identity your answer relies on.
Examine the distinction between intended and foreseen harm in double-effect reasoning, without treating good intentions as a complete moral defence.
Explore how a belief can turn out true by luck, and why checking the reason behind an answer differs from checking the answer alone.
Recognise a false dilemma by examining whether a question excludes plausible options, while distinguishing genuine constraints from a misleading either-or choice.
Evaluate a model by identifying its purpose, simplifications and limits, then ask whether the omitted details matter for the decision being made.