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Branches of Philosophy - Coggle Diagram
Branches of Philosophy
Onthology (Existence/ Reality)
The philosophical study of being. More broadly, it studies concepts that directly relate to being, in particular becoming, existence, reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.
Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics.
Ontology often deals with questions concerning what entities exist or may be said to exist and how such entities may be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.
Types in an ontology
Entity : Represents an objects or thing, for example: person, man, woman.
Relation : Represents relationships between things, for example, a parent-child relationship between two person entities.
Role : Describes the participation of entities in a relation. For example, in a marriage relation, there are roles of husband and wife, respectively.
Resource : Represents the properties associated with an entity or a relation, for example, a name or date. Resources consist of primitive types and values, such as strings or integers.
Epistemology (Knowledge)
The branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge.
Study the nature of knowledge, epistemic justification, the rationality of belief, and various related issues.
Considered one of the four main branches of philosophy, along with ethics, logic, and metaphysics.
Core areas
The philosophical analysis of the nature of knowledge and the conditions required for a belief to constitute knowledge, such as truth and justification
Potential sources of knowledge and justified belief, such as perception, reason, memory, and testimony
The structure of a body of knowledge or justified belief, including whether all justified beliefs must be derived from justified foundational beliefs or whether justification requires only a coherent set of beliefs
Philosophical skepticism, which questions the possibility of knowledge, and related problems, such as whether skepticism poses a threat to our ordinary knowledge claims and whether it is possible to refute skeptical arguments
Sources of knowledge
Intuitive knowledgeis based on intuition, faith, beliefs etc. Human feelings plays greater role in intuitive knowledge compared to reliance on facts.
Authoritarian knowledge relies on information that has been obtained from books, research papers, experts, supreme powers.
Logical knowledge is a creation of new knowledge through the application of logical reasoning.
Empirical knowledge relies on objective facts that have been established and can be demonstrated.
Axiology (Values)
The philosophical study of value.
It is either the collective term for ethics and aesthetics.
Philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of worth, or the foundation for these fields, and thus similar to value theory and meta-ethics.
Types of axiology
Ethics investigates the concepts of "right" and "good" in individual and social conduct.
Aesthetics studies the concepts of "beauty" and "harmony."
Logic
The area of philosophy devoted to examining the scope and nature of logic.
The investigation, critical analysis and intellectual reflection on issues arising in logic.
The branch of study that concerns questions about reference, predication, identity, truth, quantification, existence, entailment, modality, and necessity.
The application of formal logical techniques to philosophical problems.
Types of logic
Formal Logic
The study of inference with purely formal and explicit content
Informal Logic
Studies natural language arguments, and attempts to develop a logic to assess, analyze and improve ordinary language
Symbolic Logic
The study of symbolic abstractions that capture the formal features of logical inference.
Mathematical Logic
The application of the techniques of formal logic to mathematics and mathematical reasoning, and, conversely, the application of mathematical techniques to the representation and analysis of formal logic.