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Philosophy Atlas is a cross-referenced encyclopedia of philosophy, from schools, problems, and arguments to ethics, logic, and beyond. Search any idea and follow its threads through every thinker who wrestled with it.

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Branches of Philosophy

Philosophy of Space and Time

The philosophy of space and time is a branch of philosophy concerned with ideas about knowledge and understanding within space and time, ideas that ha

Schools of Philosophy

Purva Mimamsa

Purva Mimamsa ("prior inquiry"), commonly called Mimamsa, is one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, founded on Jaimini's Mimamsa Sutra,

Philosophers

Henry Odera Oruka

Henry Odera Oruka, born in Siaya County, Kenya in 1944 and died in Nairobi in 1995, was a Kenyan philosopher best known for developing Sage Philosophy

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The Rebel

The Rebel (L'Homme revolte, 1951) extends Albert Camus's philosophy of the absurd into a study of political revolt. It argues that the act of rebellio

Arguments and Positions

Russell's Teapot

Russell's teapot is an analogy devised by the philosopher Bertrand Russell to illustrate where the burden of proof lies for claims that cannot be empi

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A gap nobody has closed yet, rotated daily.

Plato scholarship (stylometric and philosophical chronology)

When Was Plato's Republic Composed Relative to His Other Dialogues?

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