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Expansion for Philosophy


1060 1. Philosophy
A. Wisdom
37 1. Nature of Wisdom
33 2. Wise People
16 3. Wisdom Deflated
B. History of Ideas
11 1. History of Ideas
7 2. Ancient Thought
77 3. Greek-English Lexicon
7 4. Early European Thought
13 5. Later European Thought
2 6. Twentieth Century Thought
C. History of Philosophy
8 1. History of Philosophy
42 2. Ancient Philosophy a. Ancient chronology
7 b. Pre-Socratic philosophy
6 c. Classical philosophy
2 e. Late classical philosophy
16 3. Earlier European Philosophy a. Earlier European chronology
3 b. Early medieval philosophy
3 c. Later medieval philosophy
3 d. Renaissance philosophy
27 4. Later European Philosophy a. Later European chronology
6 b. Seventeenth century philosophy
10 c. Eighteenth century philosophy
7 d. Nineteenth century philosophy
33 5. Modern Philosophy a. Modern philosophy chronology
2 b. Modern philosophy beginnings
2 c. Modern philosophy mid-period
1 d. Contemporary philosophy
D. Nature of Philosophy
32 1. Philosophy
20 2. Invocation to Philosophy
32 3. Philosophy Defined
6 4. Divisions of Philosophy
33 5. Aims of Philosophy a. Philosophy as worldly
12 b. Philosophy as transcendent
7 c. Philosophy as generalisation
12 d. Philosophy as puzzles
18 e. Philosophy as reason
2 f. Philosophy as healing
11 6. Hopes for Philosophy
48 7. Despair over Philosophy
15 8. Humour
E. Nature of Metaphysics
28 1. Nature of Metaphysics
18 2. Possibility of Metaphysics
36 3. Metaphysical Systems
25 4. Metaphysics as Science
20 5. Metaphysics beyond Science
24 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual
14 7. Against Metaphysics
F. Analytic Philosophy
17 1. Nature of Analysis
10 2. Analysis by Division
8 3. Analysis of Preconditions
28 4. Conceptual Analysis
38 5. Linguistic Analysis
13 6. Logical Analysis
19 7. Limitations of Analysis
G. Scientific Philosophy
12 1. Aims of Science
8 2. Positivism
30 3. Scientism
H. Continental Philosophy
19 1. Continental Philosophy
23 2. Phenomenology
15 3. Hermeneutics
5 4. Linguistic Structuralism
3 5. Critical Theory
11 6. Deconstruction

633 2. Reason
630 3. Truth
784 4. Formal Logic
1246 5. Theory of Logic
1191 6. Mathematics
1059 7. Existence
896 8. Modes of Existence
1532 9. Objects
800 10. Modality
490 11. Knowledge Aims
717 12. Knowledge Sources
636 13. Knowledge Criteria
679 14. Science
557 15. Nature of Minds
496 16. Persons
495 17. Mind and Body
867 18. Thought
840 19. Language
323 20. Action
272 21. Aesthetics
988 22. Metaethics
1001 23. Ethics
973 24. Political Theory
773 25. Social Practice
998 26. Natural Theory
727 27. Natural Reality
429 28. God
309 29. Religion