PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Many of the topics within the philosophy of science overlap with topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language insofar as they apply within our scientific practice. Metaphysical issues,…
EPISTEMOLOGY
Epistemology is the study of knowledge, including its nature and its extent, and of justification (that is, whether a belief…
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GOOD PHILOSOPHICAL WRITING
GOOD PHILOSOPHICAL WRITING
BASICS OF GOOD PHILOSOPHICAL WRITING: A DEEPER DIVE Having surveyed the elements of good writing from 30,000 feet, let’s swoop in on some of the most important specifics. This means…
BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY
BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY
Philosophy embraces the most ambitious field of inquiry—the universe, including the self and everything both physical and metaphysical. It is impossible to list all the branches of philosophy, which are…
WHAT IS GOOD WRITING?
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…
PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
The philosophy of law is concerned with all aspects of theoretical reflection on laws and legal systems and therefore encompasses historical and sociological studies in addition to the philosophical questions…
AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY
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…
NON-CLASSICAL LOGIC
NON-CLASSICAL LOGIC
While both the predicate calculus and the modal propositional calculus may be seen as extensions of the basic propositional calculus, there are also a variety of formal languages intended as…
WHAT IS GOOD PHILOSOPHICAL WRITING?
WHAT IS GOOD PHILOSOPHICAL WRITING?
Writing effectively for a philosophy course does not merely start with the general principles of good writing just outlined, it sets out to show mastery of these principles. It embodies…
MANY-VALUE LOGICS
MANY-VALUE LOGICS
In the classical logics already discussed, the logical connectives are taken to be bivalent—that is, they allow of only two different truth values: true and false. One natural extension to…
EPICUREANISM
EPICUREANISM
Founded by Epicurus (341–271 BC), this eponymous philosophy is best known through the Roman poet Lucretius (mid first century BC). Like the Atomists, the Epicureans maintained that everything is made…
EMPIRICISM
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…
THE ESSAY OF ASSERTION
THE ESSAY OF ASSERTION
The essay of assertion takes the position I believe. It is an argumentative essay in which you convey to the reader some belief or beliefs that you hold. If you…
ESSENTIAL READING IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
ESSENTIAL READING IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
A comprehensive list of essential readings in the history of philosophy.
QUANTUM LOGIC
QUANTUM LOGIC
Most non-classical logics are motivated by either philosophical considerations, such as the metaphysical status of the future, or technical concerns about the neutrality of the logical connectives or the notion…
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
An important historical branch designation rather than a current one, natural philosophy was the study of nature and the physical universe by philosophical (that is, largely empirical reason-based) methods.
PHILOSOPHY AS METHOD
Our digital age suggests a useful analogy to further explain the role of philosophy in intellectual life. Philosophy is analogous…
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The Unstable Foundation: A Critique of the Ontological Proof of God’s Existence
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Meta-Modal Actuality: A Dynamic Framework for Possibility, Actualization, and Causality
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Killing, Morality, and the Human Condition: A Philosophical Investigation
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The Ethics of Procreation and the Rational Acceptance of Life: A Critical Engagement with Weinberg’s Argument
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Imagination, Consciousness, and the Nature of the Soul: A Philosophical Inquiry
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Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control (The Stoic Virtues Series)
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Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World (The Stoic Virtues Series)
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Letters from a Stoic: Penguin Classics
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- Atomos
- AESTHETICS
- Aesthetic Experience
- Disinterestedness
- Emotion and Imagination
- Artistic Value and Judgment
- Aesthetic Standards
- Criticism and Evaluation
- Interpretation and Meaning
- Intentionalism vs Anti Intentionalism
- Interpretation In Literature Music Visual Art
- Philosophy of Art
- Artistic Creation
- Nature of Art
- ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
- Animal Ethics
- Anthropocentrism vs Ecocentrism
- Climate Ethics
- Deep Ecology
- EPISTEMOLOGY
- Belief, Truth and Evidence
- Evidentialism vs Reliabilism
- Theories of Truth Correspondence Coherence Pragmatic
- Justification and Skepticism
- Foundationalism vs Coherentism
- Global and Local Skepticism
- Internalism vs Externalism
- Nature and Limits Of Knowledge
- A Priori vs a Posteriori Knowledge
- Knowledge vs True Belief
- Rationalism vs Empiricism
- Social Epistemology
- Epistemic Injustice
- Group Epistemology
- Testimony
- Virtue Epistemology
- ETHICS
- Applied Ethics
- Bioethics
- Business and Professional Ethics
- Environmental Ethics
- Technology and Ai Ethics
- Meta Ethics
- Cognitivism vs Non-cognitivism
- Moral Realism vs Anti Realism
- Naturalism vs Non-naturalism
- Moral Phsycology
- Moral Development
- Moral Emotions
- Moral Motivation
- Normative Ethics
- Consequentialism
- Deontology
- Virtue Ethics
- EXISTENTIALISM AND PHENOMENOLOGY
- Conscious Experience
- Embodied Consciousness
- Intentionality
- Human Freedom and Authenticity
- Responsibility and Choice
- Meaning and Absurdity
- Existential Angst
- Nihilism
- FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
- Critique of Traditional Frameworks
- Patriarchy and canon Critique
- Feminist Epistemology and Ethics
- Gender and Identity
- Queer Theory
- Social Construction
- Intersectionality
- Race Class and Gender Intersections
- GLOBAL AND COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
- African Philosophy
- Communalism
- Decolonial Thought
- Sage Philosophy
- Ubuntu
- Eastern Philosophy
- Chinese Philosophy Confucianism Daoism
- Indian Philosophy Vedanta Buddhism Jainism
- Japanese Philosophy Zen Kyoto School
- Indigenous Philosophy
- Epistemologies and Ritual
- Land and oral Tradition
- Native American Worldviews
- Latin American Philosophy
- Coloniality and Resistance
- Liberation Philosophy
- Mestizo Thought
- HISTORICAL PERIODS OF PHILOSOPHY
- Ancient Philosophy
- Classical Greek Plato Aristotle
- Hellenistic and Roman
- Pre Socratic
- Medieval Philosophy
- Christian Islamic Jewish Traditions
- Modern Philosophy
- Empiricists Locke Berkeley Hume
- Kant and Critique
- Rationalists Descartes Spinoza Leibniz
- Nineteenth Century Philosophy
- Hegelianism
- Marxism
- Nietzsche
- Twentieth and Twenty First Century Philosophy
- Analytic Philosophy
- Continental Philosophy
- Postmodernism
- LOGIC
- Formal Logic
- Modal Logic
- Predicate Logic
- Propositional Logic
- Informal Logic
- Argumentation
- Fallacies
- Philosophy of Logic
- Logic and Language
- Logical Pluralism
- Nature of Logical Truth
- Symbolic Logic
- Model Theory
- Proof Theory
- METAPHYSICS
- Cosmology
- Origin and Structure of The Universe
- Space and TIme
- Free Will And Determination
- Agency and Responsibility
- Compatibilism vs Incompatibilism
- Identity and Change
- Persistence Through Time
- Personal Identity
- Modality
- Counterfactuals
- Possibility and Necessity
- Ontology
- Categories and Universals
- Nature of Being
- Substance and Essence
- PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION
- Critical Thinking and Moral- Development
- Democratic Education
- Pedagogical Ethics
- Purpose of Education
- PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
- Historical Explanation
- Narrative and Causation
- Nature of Historical Knowledge
- Objectivity and Interpretation
- Teleology and Progress
- PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
- Linguistic Philosophy
- Language and Reality
- Ordinary Language Philosophy
- Meaning and Reference
- Sense and Reference Frege Russell
- Theories of Reference
- Semantics and Pragmatics
- Context and Meaning
- Indexicals and Anaphora
- Speech Acts
- Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts
- PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
- Critical Legal Theory
- Critical Race Theory
- Feminist Legal Theory
- Law and Morality
- Civil Disobedience
- Unjust Laws
- Legal Reasoning
- Judicial Discretion
- Precedent and Interpretation
- Nature and Sources of Law
- Legal Positivism
- Legal Realism
- Natural Law Theory
- Rights and Justice
- Legal Rights Vs Moral Rights
- Theories Of Punishment
- PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
- Artificial Intelligence and Cognition
- Ai and Machine Consciousness
- Computational Theory of Mind
- Consciousness
- Access Consciousness
- Phenomenal Consciousness
- Mental Representation
- Content and Computation
- Intentionality Conscious Experience
- Mind Body Problem
- Dualism vs Physicalism
- Functionalism
- Personal Identity
- Embodied Identity
- Psychological Continuity
- PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
- Philosophy of Specific Sciences
- Philosophy of Biology
- Philosophy of Mathematics
- Philosophy of Physics
- Philosophy of Social Sciences
- Realism vs Anti-Realism
- Instrumentalism
- Scientific Realism
- Scientific Method and Explanation
- Induction and Falsifiability
- Models and Theories
- PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY
- Ai Surveillance and Transhumanism
- Data Ethics
- Human Enhancement
- Ethics of Innovation
- Risk and Responsibility
- Human Technology Relationship
- Embodiment and Extension
- POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
- Liberty and Authority
- Autonomy
- Political Obligation
- Political Ideologies
- Anarchism
- Conservatism
- Liberalism
- Marxism Nineteenth Century Philosophy
- Rights and Citizenship
- Civic Identity
- Human Rights
- Immigration and Nationalism
- Theories of Justice
- Distributive and Retributive Justice
- Rawlsian Theory
Terms & Concepts
Anicca
The Buddhist doctrine of impermanence. Together with anatta and dukkha, anicca is one of the fundamental characteristics of things. https://youtube.com/shorts/7SGyjcELyP0?feature=share
Game theory
The use and study of mathematical models of strategic interaction among rational decision makers. https://youtube.com/shorts/ZsX6Ayx-Y6I?feature=share
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