Some beliefs arrive without proof. They may come from habit, culture, or personal experience. Philosophy asks whether such beliefs can be reasonable, and how trust and evidence relate when the choice is urgent.

The world we see feels immediate and certain. Yet appearances shift with light, angle, and mood. If the senses can be fooled so easily, can they be trusted to show reality as it truly is?

Aesthetics is often linked to museums, concert halls, and famous architecture, but beauty and meaning can also be found in the textures of daily life.

Ethics asks how to act when choices have real costs for ourselves and others. Philosophy offers tools for thinking about such situations, but the challenge is learning how to apply them when rules clash or emotions run high.

We trust our sense of what we think and feel. We also assume we can recognise signs of thought and feeling in others. Philosophy asks how firm that trust is, and what it really means to know a mind, our own or someone else’s.