Branches of Philosophy

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meaning ‘the book that follows the physics book’

-was the way students referred to specific book in the works of Aristotle, was book of First Philosophy

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Metaphysics

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branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge.

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Epistemology

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Is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of “first principles” and “being” (ontology)

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Metaphysics

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study of most general aspects of reality

-i.e. substance, identity, nature of mind, free will

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Metaphysics

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study of arguments

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logic

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task of ________ is to advance account of valid and fallacious inference to allow one to distinguish good from bad arguments

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logician

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study of morality, sometimes called moral philosophy

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ethics

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__________ behavior is that which is “good” or “right”

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ethical

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concerned with what is the correct way to educate a person

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Philosophy of Education

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study concerned with the question whether history (the universe/humankind) is progressing towards a specific end

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Philosophy of History

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concerned with how our ________ affect our thought,

Wittgenstein asserted that the limits of our _________ marks the limits of our thoughts

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Language,

Philosophy of Language

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study of law attempting to discern what the best laws might be, how laws came into being, attempting to delimit human laws from natural laws, whether we should always obey the law, etc..

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Philosophy of Law

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concerned with issues like; the nature of axioms and symbols (numbers, triangle, operands) of math that we use to understand the world, do perfect mathematical forms exist in the real world, etc..

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Philosophy of Mathematics

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study of mind, attempting to ascertain exactly what the mind is, how it interacts with our body, do other minds exist, how does it work, etc…

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Philosophy of Mind

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study of government and nations

-particularly how they came about, what makes good governments, what obligations citizens have towards their government, etc.

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Philosophy of Politics

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concerned with the study of God, how religion should shape our lives, likes to use reason as ultimate authority

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Philosophy of Religion

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study of science concerned with whether scientific knowledge can be said to be certain how we obtain it, can science really explain everything, does causation really exist, can every event in the universe be described in terms of physics, etc…

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Philosophy of Science