Knowledge, Mind & Reality

Extended topic hub · beyond most exam courses · Philosophy & Ethics · Going deeper

Socrates' method, Plato's Forms, where knowledge comes from, free will — and Rawls' veil of ignorance.

What you'll be able to do

• Run a genuine Socratic examination
• Explain Plato's Forms and the empiricist reply
• Design a just society from behind the veil of ignorance

The minds who lived it

• Socrates — Gadfly of Athens

Teach it to Ember

On Incandio you prove understanding by teaching: explain each idea to Ember, the AI apprentice, until it truly understands.

• The Socratic Method — How did Socrates teach by questioning rather than telling?
• Plato's Theory of Forms — Why did Plato think the real world is not the one we see?
• Where Knowledge Comes From — Do we learn from our senses, or from reason?
• Free Will vs Determinism — Are our choices truly free, or determined by what came before?

Apply it

• The Veil of Ignorance — Design the rules of a whole society — but you won't learn your own place in it until after they're set.

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