Philosophy

Some existing articles:

William Alston -- hold come what may -- Meta-Philosophy -- common sense -- Thomas Reid -- direct realism -- altruism

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IntroductoryMaterial:

WhyPhilosophize -- PhilosophicalMethod -- DefinitionOfPhilosophy

PhilosophicalSubdisciplines:

LoGic -- OntOlogy -- MetaPhysics -- PhilosophyOfReligion -- philosophy of nature -- philosophy of physics -- philosophy of biology -- PhilosophyOfMind -- PhilosophyOfPerception -- PhilosophyOfLanguage -- epistemology -- philosophy of science -- PhilosophyOfPsychology -- MetaPhilosophy -- EthIcs -- MetaEthics -- TheoryOfValue -- TheoryOfConduct -- AppliedEthics -- PoliticalPhilosophy -- philosophy of social sciences -- aesthetics -- philosophy of education -- PhilosophicalCounseling

Philosophers:

The Presocratics -- Socrates -- Plato -- AristotlE -- Epicurus -- Hellenic Philosophy -- Cicero -- Augustine -- Anselm -- Aquinas -- Francis Bacon -- Thomas Hobbes -- Rene Descartes -- Nicholas Malebranche -- Baruch Spinoza -- GottfriedLeibniz -- Blaise Pascal -- John Locke -- George Berkeley -- David Hume -- Thomas Reid -- Dugald Stewart -- Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Voltaire -- Immanuel Kant -- James Mill -- J. S. Mill -- Karl Marx -- Arthur Schopenhauer -- Soren Kierkegaard -- FriedrichNietzsche -- Bertrand Russell -- Karl Popper -- Ayn Rand -- G. E. Moore -- Rudolph Carnap -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Albert Camus -- W. V. O. Quine -- Nelson Goodman

Philosophical theories:

MetaPhysics: realism -- anti-realism -- irrealism -- NominaliIsm -- Platonism Epistemology: foundationalism -- coherentism -- reliabilism -- justified true belief EthIcs: hedonism -- eudaimonism -- ConsequentialIsm -- utilitarianism -- AlTruism -- egoism -- PsychologicalEgoism -- DeconstructionIsm -- HistoricalMaterialism [etc. continue the list please]

Philosophical issues and problems:

MetaPhysics: FreeWillAndDeterminism PhilosophyOfReligion: FaithAndRationality EthIcs: Epistemology: TheProblemOfOtherMinds

Philosophical Movements:FrenchMaterialism -- GermanIdealism

Are you a philosopher or do you know a thing or two about philosophy? Then add a topic to those listed and give us what you know about the concepts, theories, people, movements, etc., of philosophy. It's no big deal: dash off a paragraph or two and watch others contribute and expand what you've done. You can edit the above articles, too.

I've added several suggested topics. At your leisure you might start articles on any or all of the above. Nearly every trained philosopher, and plenty of untrained ones, have something reasonably useful and accurate to say about many of these topics!