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== Parent topics ==
== Parent topics ==
* [[Humanities]]
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== Subdisciplines ==
== Subtopics ==
As with any field of academic study, philosophy has a number of subdisciplines.  Philosophy in fact seems to have a huge number of subdisciplines, in no small part due to the fact that there tends to be a "philosophy of" nearly everything else that is studied.  The beginner is invited particularly to pay attention to [[logic]], [[metaphysics]], [[philosophy of mind]], [[philosophy of language]], [[epistemology]], [[philosophy of science]], [[ethics]], and [[political philosophy]] as--arguably, of course--the "central disciplines" of philosophy.
As with any field of academic study, philosophy has a number of subdisciplines.  Philosophy in fact seems to have a huge number of subdisciplines, in no small part due to the fact that there tends to be a "philosophy of" nearly everything else that is studied.  The beginner is invited particularly to pay attention to [[logic]], [[metaphysics]], [[philosophy of mind]], [[philosophy of language]], [[epistemology]], [[philosophy of science]], [[ethics]], and [[political philosophy]] as--arguably, of course--the "central disciplines" of philosophy.


*[[Aesthetics]]: the study of basic philosophical questions about [[art]] and [[beauty]].
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*[[Continental philosophy]]: a broad movement in modern philosophy from those in [[France]] and [[Germany]]; often juxtaposed with [[Analytical philosophy]] (which itself is roughly mapped to [[Anglo-American philosophy]].
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*[[Epistemology]]: the study of [[knowledge]], its nature, [[skepticism|possibility]], and [[epistemic justification|justification]].
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*[[Ethics]]: the study of what makes actions right or wrong, and of how theories of [[right action]] can be applied to special moral problems.  Subdisciplines include [[meta-ethics]], [[value theory]], [[theory of conduct]], and [[applied ethics]].
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*[[History of philosophy]]: the study of what (mainly dead) philosophers have written, its interpretation, and who influenced whom.  This differs from the [[history of ideas]] in that the history of philosophy involves philosophical engagement with the positions and arguments being studied.
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*[[Logic]]: the study of the standards of correct [[argument|argumentation]].
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*[[Meta-philosophy]]: the study of [[philosophical method]] and the goals of philosophy.
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*[[Metaphysics]]: the study of the most basic [[category|categories]] of things, such as [[existence]], [[object]]s, [[property|properties]], [[causality]], and so forth.
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*[[Ontology]]: understanding and attempting to provide answers to questions of the nature of [[being]] and the classification of existing things
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*[[Philosophy of biology]]: the philosophical study of some basic concepts of biology, including the notion of a [[species]].
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*[[Philosophy of education]]: the philosophical study of the purpose and most basic methods of education or learning.
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*[[Philosophy of language]]: the philosophical study of the concepts of [[meaning]], [[truth]] and [[reference]].
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*[[Philosophy of law]] and [[Jurisprudence]]: are the study of the basis of law (authority and relevance), and its link with morality.
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*[[Philosophy of mind]]: the philosophical study of the nature of the [[mind]], and its relation to the [[body]] and the rest of the world.
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*[[Philosophy of perception]]: the philosophical study of topics related to perception, especially the question what the "immediate objects" of perception are.
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*[[Philosophy of physics]]: the philosophical study of some basic concepts of physics, including [[space]], [[time]], and [[force]].
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*[[Philosophy of psychology]]: the philosophical study of some fundamental questions about the methods and concepts of psychology and psychiatry, such as the meaningfulness of [[Sigmund Freud|Freudian]] concepts; this is sometimes treated as including philosophy of mind.
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*[[Philosophy of religion]]: the philosophical study of questions such as the meaning of the concept of [[God]], the rationality of belief in the existence of God, the relationship netween [[morality]] and [[religion]], etc.
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*[[Philosophy of science]]: includes not only, as subdisciplines, the "philosophies of" the special sciences (i.e., physics, biology, etc.), but also questions about induction, [[scientific method]], scientific progress, etc.
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*[[Philosophy of social sciences]]: the philosophical study of some basic concepts, methods, and presuppositions of social sciences such as sociology and economics.
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*[[Political philosophy]]: the philosophical study of questions about societies and social interaction, including the nature and justification of [[the state]], [[justice]], [[freedom]], [[law]], and [[punishment]].
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''There are quite a few others; feel free to complete the list.''
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==Other related topics==
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As with any field of academic study, philosophy has a number of subdisciplines. Philosophy in fact seems to have a huge number of subdisciplines, in no small part due to the fact that there tends to be a "philosophy of" nearly everything else that is studied. The beginner is invited particularly to pay attention to logic, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of science, ethics, and political philosophy as--arguably, of course--the "central disciplines" of philosophy.

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