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P_3_05 — Philosophy of Science — Demarcation, Method, and Progress
The philosophy of science investigates the foundations, methods, and implications of science — asking what distinguishes science from non-science (the demarcation problem), how scientific theories are confirmed or refute
P_3_13 — Kant: Transcendental Idealism and the Limits of Reason
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), professor at the University of Königsberg in East Prussia, produced what is widely regarded as the most transformative body of work in modern Western philosophy. His three Critiques — the Criti
P_3_10 — Skepticism and Pyrrhonism
Skepticism — the philosophical position that knowledge is uncertain, limited, or impossible — is one of the oldest and most persistent currents in philosophy. Ancient Pyrrhonian skepticism (Pyrrho, ~360–270 BCE; Sextus E
P_3_04 — Phenomenology — Consciousness and the Structure of Experience
Phenomenology, founded by Edmund Husserl at the turn of the 20th century, is the systematic study of the structures of consciousness and the phenomena that appear within it. Through its central methodological innovations
P_3_08 — Pragmatism — American Philosophy
Pragmatism is the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, originating in the 1870s with Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914), developed by William James (1842–1910), and extended by John Dewey (1859–1952). It
P_3_16 — Heidegger & Phenomenology
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) is widely regarded as one of the most influential — and controversial — philosophers of the 20th century. His magnum opus, Sein und Zeit (Being and Time, 1927), transformed Western philosophy
P_3_06 — Plato — Forms, Cosmology, and the Philosophical Tradition
Plato (428/427–348/347 BCE) is the foundational figure of Western philosophy, whose dialogues established the frameworks for metaphysics (Theory of Forms), epistemology (knowledge as recollection), political philosophy (
P_3_09 — Nihilism, Absurdism, and Camus
Nihilism — from Latin nihil ("nothing") — is the philosophical position that life, existence, and values lack objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic worth. It is not a single doctrine but a cluster of related positions
P_3_07 — Aristotle — Natural Philosophy, Cosmology, and Legacy
Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and polymath whose works constitute the single most influential body of thought in the history of Western and Islamic intellectual tradition. A student of Plato for twenty
P_3_17 — Foucault: Power, Knowledge & Discourse
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, and social theorist whose work on the relationship between power, knowledge, and discourse transformed the humanities and social sciences. His cen
P_4_12 — Mesoamerican Philosophy
Mesoamerican philosophy refers to the systematic thought traditions of pre-Columbian civilizations — primarily the Nahua (Aztec/Mexica) and Maya — as reconstructed from colonial-era sources (Nahuatl-language texts collec
P_4_16 — Buddhist Logic & Nagarjuna's Tetralemma
Buddhist logic represents one of the world's most sophisticated philosophical traditions, developing independently from and in some ways surpassing Aristotelian logic in its treatment of negation, paradox, and the limits
P_4_07 — Confucian Ethics, Filial Piety, and Social Harmony
Confucianism — the ethical, social, and political philosophy developed from the teachings of Kong Qiu (Confucius, 551-479 BCE) — has shaped East Asian civilization more profoundly than perhaps any other single intellectu
P_4_01 — Death and the Afterlife Across Cultures
Every known human culture has developed beliefs about what happens after death — making afterlife cosmology one of the most universal features of human thought. The major frameworks include: judgment and reward/punishmen
P_4_14 — Maat and Ancient Egyptian Philosophy: Order, Truth, and Justice
Maat (also Ma'at) is the ancient Egyptian concept of cosmic order, truth, justice, balance, and righteous conduct that governed the universe, society, and individual ethics for over three millennia — from the Old Kingdom
P_4_02 — Perennial Philosophy and Universal Wisdom
The Perennial Philosophy — philosophia perennis — is the thesis that beneath the surface diversity of the world's religious and spiritual traditions lies a SINGLE, universal truth about the nature of reality and human ex
P_4_15 — Japanese Philosophy: Zen, Bushido, Wabi-Sabi, Mono no Aware
Japanese philosophy encompasses a rich, distinctive tradition that has woven together indigenous Shinto concepts (sacredness of nature, ritual purity, musubi — the vital creative force), continental imports from Chinese
P_4_09 — Non-Dualism — Advaita Vedanta, Taoism, and the Unity of Opposites
Non-dualism — the philosophical position that ultimate reality is not divided into fundamentally opposed categories (subject/object, mind/matter, self/other, good/evil) — appears independently across the world's deepest
P_4_08 — Ubuntu and African Philosophical Traditions
African philosophy encompasses a rich and diverse family of intellectual traditions far too often overlooked in global philosophical discourse. Ubuntu — "I am because we are" (umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu) — is the most wide
P_1_01 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness
The Hard Problem of Consciousness, defined by philosopher David Chalmers in 1995, asks: Why does physical processing in the brain give rise to subjective experience? We can explain HOW neurons fire (the "easy problems")
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