The nine problems we'll... «What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy»

The nine problems we'll consider are these:

Knowledge of the world beyond our minds
Knowledge of minds other than our own
The relation between mind and brain
How language is possible
Whether we have free will
The basis of morality
What inequalities are unjust
The nature of death
The meaning of life

They are only a selection: there are many, many others.

What I say will reflect my own view of these problems and will not necessarily represent what most philosophers think. There probably isn't anything that most philosophers think about these questions anyway: philosophers disagree, and there are more than two sides to every philosophical question. My personal opinion is that most of these problems have not been solved, and that perhaps some of them never will be. But the object here is not to give answers -- not even answers that I myself may think are right -- but to introduce you to the problems in a very preliminary way so that you can worry about them yourself.