MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHYHistory Of PhilosophyTHOMISM
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FORMS OF PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGTHE ESSAY OF AFFIRMATION
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Writing PhilosophyWHAT IS GOOD WRITING?
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WHAT IS GOOD WRITING?

What is good music? What is good art? What is good writing? Such questions unleash many opinions. The branch of traditional philosophy called Aesthetics is devoted to answering such questions…
History Of PhilosophyTHE SOPHISTS
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THE SOPHISTS

The Sophists were not a single school but a professional grouping of largely itinerant teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and legal argumentation. Their importance lies not in any specific doctrines but…
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THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL

A group of philosophers, cultural critics, and social scientists based around the Frankfurt (Germany) Institute for Social Research were primarily concerned with integrating philosophical analysis with then-recent results in the…
FORMS OF PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGTHE PERSONAL ESSAY
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THE PERSONAL ESSAY

The personal essay is a self-reflective search for meaning. Unlike most philosophical writing, it is not argumentative. Instead, it is exploratory and speculative, often even somewhat confessional. It is typically…
THE EARLY MODERN PERIODHistory Of PhilosophyLIBERALISM
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LIBERALISM

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HEGELIANISM

One common theme in post-Kantian philosophy was an attempt to overcome the remaining divisions between noumena and phenomena, and to reconcile the distinct faculties of sensibility and understanding in to…
NON-WESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONSHistory Of PhilosophyAFRICAN PHILOSOPHY
November 15, 2023

AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY

The earliest indigenous African philosophy to produce written documents emerged during the seventeenth century, especially in Ethiopia. Zera Yacob (1599–1692), whose Hatata (1667) has been compared to René Descartes’ Discourse…
FORMS OF PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGWriting PhilosophyTHE ARGUMENTATIVE PAPER
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THE ARGUMENTATIVE PAPER

Essays of assertion, affirmation, and refutation are all examples of the argumentative paper. An effective argument relies on factually true premises or premises for which you have strong support.
WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?PHILOSOPHICAL FILMS AND TV SHOWS
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PHILOSOPHICAL FILMS AND TV SHOWS

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Philosophy BranchesTraditional Branches of PhilosophyMETAPHYSICS
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METAPHYSICS

Metaphysics is the philosophical investigation of reality, including the nature of the world and the entities it contains. While such an investigation inevitably overlaps with natural philosophy—the sciences, especially physics…
THE EARLY MODERN PERIODWHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?EMPIRICISM
November 15, 2023

EMPIRICISM

Empiricism covers a range of views prioritizing experience as the primary source of knowledge. During the Early Modern Period, this view was expounded by the so-called British Empiricists—Locke, Berkeley, and…
PHILOSOPHICAL BOOKS AND TEXTESSENTIAL READING IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
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ESSENTIAL READING IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

A comprehensive list of essential readings in the history of philosophy.

Books

  • Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy (New Perspectives in Ontology)

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Mind (Oxford Handbooks)

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  • How to Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins

    $28.99
  • The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers

    $12.91
  • On Law, Morality, and Politics (Hackett Classics)

    $7.01
  • The Art of Travel

    $18.00
  • The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    $14.34
  • Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

    $18.46
  • The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (Philosophy of Mind)

    $20.55
  • The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments

    $15.44
  • No Exit and Three Other Plays

    $10.64
  • Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living

    $19.99
  • The Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (Penguin Classics)

    $9.99
  • The Universe and the Teacup: The Mathematics of Truth and Beauty

    $15.95
  • The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

    $16.43
  • End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

    $17.99

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Terms & Concepts

A

Archē

From the Greek for “source,” or “beginning,” it is a term used by Pre-Socratic philosophers to describe the first principle of existing things. https://youtube.com/shorts/SxlNjemI8JY?feature=share
S

Scope of the quantifier

The range of a quantifier over a domain of discourse; in symbolic logic notation, the quantifier’s scope is expressed by parentheses. https://youtube.com/shorts/3Jhrc7Toawk?feature=share
C

Cosmological argument

An argument that God exists because there must have been a first cause—that is, an ultimate reason for the universe. https://youtube.com/shorts/nZfxGWFCvyU?feature=share
M
Mimesis
W
Will
D
Disjunct
D
Disjunction introduction
C
Cosmogony
G
General conditional proof
H
Hasty generalization
B
Behaviorism
T
Tautological consequence
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