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Branches of Philosophy - Coggle Diagram
Branches of Philosophy
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Epistemology (Knowledge)
Deals with the nature, origin, scope and (possibility/study) of knowledge
- Plato’s epistemology was an attempt to understand what it was to know, and how knowledge (unlike mere true opinion) is good for the knower.
- Locke’s epistemology was an attempt to understand the operations of human understanding
- Kant’s epistemology was an attempt to understand the conditions of the possibility of human understanding,
- Russell’s epistemology was an attempt to understand how modern science could be justified by appeal to sensory experience.
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An attempt to understand how our degrees of confidence are rationally constrained by our evidence, and much recent work in feminist epistemology is an attempt to understand the ways in which interests affect our evidence, and affect our rational constraints more generally.
Seeks to understand one or another kind of cognitive success (or, correspondingly, cognitive failure)
Axiology (Values)
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Philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of worth, or the foundation for these fields, and thus similar to value theory and meta-ethics
From Greek ἀξία, axia, "value, worth"; and -λογία, -logia
Studies mainly two kinds of values: ethics and aesthetics. Ethics investigates the concepts of "right" and "good" in individual and social conduct. Aesthetics studies the concepts of "beauty" and "harmony".
Logic
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From Classical Greek λόγος (logos), originally meaning the word, or what is spoken, but coming to mean thought or reason