Philosophy Discipline

A Philosophy Discipline is an academic discipline that focuses on very general and fundamental problems/

A Philosophy Discipline is an academic discipline that focuses on very general and fundamental problems.

• Example(s):
  • Political Philosophy (for political systems and governance), including subfields like democracy theory.
  • Epistemology (for knowledge and belief systems), including subfields like theories of justification.
  • Ethics (for moral principles and right conduct), including subfields like utilitarianism discipline and deontology discipline.
  • Metaphysics (for reality and existence), including subfields like ontology discipline and cosmology discipline.
  • Philosophy Of Mind (for consciousness and mental processes), including subfields like dualism discipline and physicalism discipline.
  • Philosophy Of Language (for language and communication), including subfields like semantics and pragmatic disciplines.
  • Philosophy of Law (for legal systems and justice), including subfields like jurisprudence discipline.
  • Philosophy of Technology (for technology-related processes), including subfields like techno-solutionism.
  • ...
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Sociology.
  • a Cognitiive Science Discipline.
• See: Reality, Ontology, Epistemology, Axiology, Logic, Dialectic.

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References

2024

• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy Retrieved:2024-8-8.
  • Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions.

    Historically, many of the individual sciences, such as physics and psychology, formed part of philosophy. However, they are considered separate academic disciplines in the modern sense of the term. Influential traditions in the history of philosophy include Western, Arabic–Persian, Indian, and Chinese philosophy. Western philosophy originated in Ancient Greece and covers a wide area of philosophical subfields. A central topic in Arabic–Persian philosophy is the relation between reason and revelation. Indian philosophy combines the spiritual problem of how to reach enlightenment with the exploration of the nature of reality and the ways of arriving at knowledge. Chinese philosophy focuses principally on practical issues in relation to right social conduct, government, and self-cultivation.

    Major branches of philosophy are epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics. Epistemology studies what knowledge is and how to acquire it. Ethics investigates moral principles and what constitutes right conduct. Logic is the study of correct reasoning and explores how good arguments can be distinguished from bad ones. Metaphysics examines the most general features of reality, existence, objects, and properties. Other subfields are aesthetics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of history, and political philosophy. Within each branch, there are competing schools of philosophy that promote different principles, theories, or methods.

    Philosophers use a great variety of methods to arrive at philosophical knowledge. They include conceptual analysis, reliance on common sense and intuitions, use of thought experiments, analysis of ordinary language, description of experience, and critical questioning. Philosophy is related to many other fields, including the sciences, mathematics, business, law, and journalism. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective and studies the scope and fundamental concepts of these fields. It also investigates their methods and ethical implications.

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/philosophy Retrieved:2014-1-11.
  • Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument. In more casual speech, by extension, "philosophy" can refer to "the most basic beliefs, concepts, and attitudes of an individual or group".

    The word "philosophy" comes from the Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophia), which literally means "love of wisdom".

    The introduction of the terms "philosopher" and "philosophy" has been ascribed to the Greek thinker Pythagoras.

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