A branch of philosophy is one of the discipline's own recognized areas of inquiry: the core branches of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, logic, aesthetics and political philosophy alongside philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science and philosophy of language, together with the growing set of applied and interdisciplinary subfields such as philosophy of law, philosophy of biology and philosophy of technology. Branches are the category anchors every philosopher, school, work and argument or position on this atlas is placed against; they are not themselves grouped into a further subcategory tier, since they are the tier the rest of the structure is built from.
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Philosophy of Education (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Contains: Philosophy of Education
Philosophy of Technology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Contains: Philosophy of Technology
Philosophy of Biology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Contains: Philosophy of Biology
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationContains: Philosophy of Action, entry: Action, Section 1Quote, Contains: Philosophy of Action, entry: Action, Section 1
The central question in philosophy of action is standardly taken to be: What makes something an action?
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Contains: Metaphilosophy, entry: Metaphilosophy, IntroductionQuote, Contains: Metaphilosophy, entry: Metaphilosophy, Introduction
What is philosophy? What is philosophy for? How should philosophy be done? These are metaphilosophical questions, metaphilosophy being the study of the nature of philosophy.
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