Appendix:Glossary of philosophy
This is a glossary of philosophy. See also Appendix:Glossary of philosophical isms.
| Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z |
A
[edit]- analytic philosophy
- A style of philosophy that came to dominate English-speaking countries in the 20th century.
C
[edit]- continental philosophy
- A collective term for various philosophical traditions strongly influenced by certain 19th and 20th century philosophers from mainland Europe, such as Hegel.
E
[edit]- epistemology
- The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; theory of knowledge.
- ethics
- The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct.
L
[edit]- logic
- The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
M
[edit]- metaphysics
- The branch of philosophy which studies fundamental principles intended to describe or explain all that is, and which are not themselves explained by anything more fundamental; the study of first principles; the study of being insofar as it is being (ens in quantum ens).
O
[edit]- ontology
- The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
P
[edit]- particular
- A particular thing.
- philosophy of science
- The study of the assumptions, foundations, and implications of science.
U
[edit]- universal
- A characteristic or property that particular things have in common.