Subject

Philosophy

Think about the big questions - what is real, what is right, what can we know - from your first wonder to logic, ethics and the great thinkers, one tiny step at a time.

Philosophy starts with questions anyone can engage with - what is fair, what is real, how do we know things - and works towards logic, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy and the major thinkers and traditions.

The reasoning and logic units are the practical core. Being able to identify a premise, spot an invalid inference and recognise a common fallacy is useful well beyond the subject, and it makes the rest of the track much easier to follow.

Philosophy is where you learn to take an argument apart - your own included. That skill is worth more than any particular conclusion in the subject, and it is transferable to every other one.

Units: 18
Steps: 416
Questions: 2,179

Who this track is for

The early units suit upper primary; the later ones reach undergraduate introductory philosophy.

How to approach it

Do the logic units early, they are the tools for everything else
Try to state the strongest version of a position you disagree with
Philosophy questions often have no settled answer, and that is the point

Study guide · 8 min readHow to Learn PhilosophyPhilosophy is not opinion with longer words. A guide to reading slowly on purpose, why you must argue against your own position, and how to tell a genuine disagreement from two people using a word differently.

What you will be able to do

Separate whether an argument is valid from whether its premises are true
Name the main ethical theories and say what each would do with a case
Explain why justified true belief is not quite enough for knowledge
Notice when a disagreement is really about definitions

The thing people get wrong

That philosophy is opinion with longer words. The whole discipline is about giving reasons and abandoning positions when the reasons fail, which is close to the opposite of having opinions.

If you only do 3 units

Logic is the tool the rest of the subject uses, ethics is the branch you will actually apply, and epistemology is where the questions get genuinely hard fastest.

What the questions look like

8 real questions from across the Philosophy track, easiest first, each with the answer and the reason behind it. Every unit page below has thirty more.

Fill the blankLevel 1
1. Philosophers dig deeper by asking the small word '____' again and again.
- whycorrect
- yum
- bye
- maybe
Asking why over and over helps uncover the reasons behind an idea.
Multiple choiceLevel 1
2. Which branch of philosophy studies knowledge and how we come to know things?
- Epistemologycorrect
- Chemistry
- Ethics
- Art
Epistemology is the branch about knowledge, belief, and how we know.
Multiple choiceLevel 1
3. What does it mean to have an open mind?
- Being willing to consider other ideas and change your mind with good reasonscorrect
- Believing anything you hear
- Never listening to anyone
- Always thinking you are right
An open mind is ready to listen and to change with good reasons, without just believing everything.
Multiple choiceLevel 1
4. What is it called when you use your conclusion as the reason to prove that very same conclusion?
- Circular reasoningcorrect
- Clear reasoning
- Careful reasoning
- Creative writing
Circular reasoning assumes the very thing it is trying to prove.
Multiple choiceLevel 1
5. Consequentialism judges whether an action is right by looking at its...
- results and outcomescorrect
- day of the week
- spelling
- color
Consequentialism holds that the outcomes of an action decide whether it is right.
Fill the blankLevel 1
6. A lucky ____ that happens to be correct is not the same as real knowledge.
- guesscorrect
- reason
- proof
- fact
Getting the right answer by luck is not knowledge, because it is not backed by good reasons.
Fill the blankLevel 1
7. Metaphysics tries to understand what is ____, that is, what really exists.
- realcorrect
- silly
- tasty
- tiny
Metaphysics is about what is real, so the word that fits is real.
Fill the blankLevel 2
8. If you forget to water a plant, one ____ is that it may dry out and die.
- consequencecorrect
- flower
- song
- rule
A plant drying out is a consequence of not watering it.

Units in Philosophy

Listed in the order they are meant to be worked through.

Practise Philosophy

2,179 questions, in tiny sessions you can finish in a few minutes.

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Where these questions come from. Each unit starts as a plan of the concepts it should cover and the difficulty it should span. Questions are written against that plan with AI assistance, then checked by a validator that rejects anything without a single defensible answer, an explanation, or plausible wrong options. How we write questions sets out the whole process, and corrections are fixed in the bank and reach the site and the app the same day.