Four philosophical questions to make your brain hurt
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7739493.stm
Excerpts:
Philosophy involves standing back and thinking – intensely and rigorously – about aspects of our lives that are at once ordinary and fundamental.
1. SHOULD WE KILL HEALTHY PEOPLE FOR THEIR ORGANS?
2. YOU ARE NOT THE PERSON WHO STARTED READING THIS ARTICLE
3. IS THAT REALLY A COMPUTER SCREEN IN FRONT OF YOU?
4. YOU DID NOT FREELY AND RESPONSIBLY CHOOSE TO READ THIS ARTICLE
IN CONCLUSION
Doing this in philosophy goes hand-in-hand with the constructive side of our subject, with providing sane, rigorous, and illuminating accounts of central aspects of our existence: freewill, morality, justice, beauty, consciousness, knowledge, truth, meaning, and so on.
David Bain is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Glasgow