List of basic philosophy topics
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Philosophy is an ongoing discussion about knowledge; it is a broad field of inquiry in which the definition of knowledge itself is one of the subjects investigated. Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, spans the nature of the universe and human nature (of the mind and the body), the relationships between these, and between people. It explores what and how people come to know, including existence itself, and how that knowledge is reliably and usefully represented, and communicated between and among humans, whether in thought, by language, or with mathematics. Philosophy is the predecessor and complement of science, and its foundation. It develops notions about the issues which underly science, and ponders the nature of thought itself. In science, the scientific method, which involves repeated observations of the results of controlled experiments, is an available and highly successful philosophical methodology. Within fields of study that are concerned directly with humans (economics, psychology, sociology and so forth), in which experimental methodologies are not generally available, subdisciplines of philosophy may be developed to provide a rational basis of study in the respective fields.
The following list of topics is provided as an overview of and introduction to the extensive field of philosophy.
[edit] Essence of philosophy
- Main article: Philosophy
[edit] Subdivisions of philosophy
[edit] Branches of philosophy
- Aesthetics - the study of beauty, judgments of sentiment, or taste. Aesthetics is closely associated with the philosophy of art.
- Epistemology - studies the nature and scope of knowledge and belief.
- Ethics - study of the right, the good, and the valuable. Includes study of applied ethics.
- Logic - is the study of good reasoning, by examining the validity of arguments and documenting their fallacies.
- Metaphysics - studies the state of being and the nature of reality.
[edit] Areas of philosophy
[edit] Philosophical movements
[edit] Philosophical movements of the ancient world
[edit] Philosophical movements of the modern world
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[edit] Major doctrines, principles, and theories of philosophy
[edit] Philosophy by region/era
[edit] History of philosophy
- Main article: History of philosophy
[edit] Fundamental philosophical questions
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See also: Unsolved problems in philosophy
[edit] Basic philosophical concepts
- Below are basic terms of philosophy which are not covered above:
[edit] Western philosophical concepts
[edit] General
deconstruction – dialectic – freethought – know thyself – life stance – meaning of life – perennial philosophy – philosopher – philosophy and literature – pragmatics – rationality – reason (practical, speculative, and theoretical) – semantics – semiotics – The Republic (Plato) – rhetoric – Thus Spoke Zarathustra – universals (problem of) – The Urantia Book – Vienna Circle – Weltanschauung – wisdom – women in philosophy – world view – Young Hegelians – Zeitgeist
[edit] Aesthetics
[edit] Epistemology
A priori – A posteriori – belief – certainty – Five Ws – hypothesis – internalism and externalism – justification – justified true belief knowledge – prejudice – scientific method – truth – uncertainty – verification
[edit] Ethics
action – action theory – bioethics – business ethics – eudaimonia – evil – descriptive ethics – freedom of religion – genethics – good – happiness – the Happy Human – environmental ethics – human flourishing – euthanasia – freedom – human rights – intolerance – justice – justification of human rights – medical ethics – morality norm – normative ethics – original position personal value – quality of life – social contract – suffering – Symposium (by Plato) – tolerance – Universal Declaration of Human Rights – value theory – values – veil of ignorance – vice – violence – virtue – virtue ethics – virtue theory – voluntary euthanasia – war and philosophy – weakness of will – Welfare – welfare economics – well-being – wrong
[edit] Logic
abduction – ambiguity – analogy – argument – argument, logical – axiom – deduction – fallacy – induction – inference – non-contradiction, law of – reason – validity – Venn diagram – voting paradox – well-formed formula
[edit] Fallacies
- formal fallacy, examples:
- informal fallacy, examples:
[edit] Metaphysics
awareness – being – categories of the understanding – causality – Cogito, ergo sum – consciousness – cosmology – cosmogony – creation Dasein – essence – evolution – existence – free will human nature – irreligion – I think, therefore I am – nature – noumenon – object– ontology – creation myths – perception – perception, philosophy of – rational choice theory - reality – religion – self – sense data – spirituality – subject– substance – tabula rasa – thing in itself – understanding, categories of the – universal – veil of perception – volition – will – will to power – Zeno's paradoxes
[edit] Eastern philosophical concepts
Wheel of life – yang – yin – yin and yang – Yoga – zen
[edit] Philosophers
[edit] Analytics
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[edit] Classical philosophers
[edit] Deconstructionists
[edit] Eastern philosophers
[edit] Empiricists
[edit] Existentialists
[edit] German idealists
[edit] Logical positivists
[edit] Pessimists
[edit] Phenomenologists
Joesph Niedymeyer
[edit] Political philosophers
[edit] Pragmatists
[edit] Rationalists
[edit] Structuralists
[edit] Utilitarians
[edit] Philosophy lists
- Main lists: Lists of philosophy topics and List of philosophy topics (index)
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[edit] See also
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[edit] Books
Following are some introductions to major philosophical issues:
- Blackwell Companion to Philosophy
- A History of Western Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell
- A History of Philosophy, by Frederick Copleston
[edit] External links
- Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
- EpistemeLinks: Philosophy Resources on the Internet
- Guide to Philosophy on the Internet
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The Ism Book
- Introducing Philosophy Series. By Paul Newall (for beginners)
- Philosophical positions (philosophy, movement, school, theory, etc.)
- The Problems of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell (links provided to full text)
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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