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How Philosophy Disagrees: Four Open Questions and Two New Schools

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A path through what this wave added: the mind-body problem, free will versus determinism, the Gettier problem and internalism versus externalism as first-class open disagreements, then the Kyoto School and the Frankfurt School, two twentieth-century traditions the atlas had not yet covered.

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Open Questions

The mind-body problem: is the mind identical with the brain, or genuinely non-physical?

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Open Questions

Free will versus determinism: libertarians, hard determinists and compatibilists still disagree.

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Open Questions

The Gettier problem: sixty years on, no fourth condition for knowledge has won consensus.

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Schools of Philosophy

The Kyoto School: Nishida Kitaro's philosophy of absolute nothingness.

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Schools of Philosophy

The Frankfurt School: critical theory from Horkheimer and Adorno to Habermas.

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