Branches
The nine branches of philosophy and their parts.
Metaphysics
What exists, and what is it to be? Time, causes, freedom and necessity.
Causation · Existence & being · Free will · Possibility & necessity · Time & space
6/ month15 in allKnowledge & Truth
What can we know, and how? Belief, doubt, evidence and truth.
Evidence & testimony · Knowledge & belief · Reason & experience · Skepticism · Truth
8/ month15 in allMind & Self
Consciousness, the self, emotion and perception — and whether machines could have minds.
Artificial minds · Consciousness · Emotions · Perception · Personal identity
8/ month18 in allEthics
How should we live and act? Moral theories, character, and hard cases.
Animals & environment · Applied ethics · Bioethics · Meta-ethics · Moral theories · Virtue & character
6/ month16 in allSociety & Politics
Justice, rights, power and law; how we live together.
Economy & work · Gender, race & identity · Justice · Law · Power & the state · Rights & liberty
15/ month31 in allReligion & the Sacred
God, faith and reason, evil, and the mystical, across the world’s traditions.
Faith & reason · God & the arguments · Mysticism & spirituality · Religions compared · The problem of evil
11/ month18 in allLogic, Language & Mathematics
Good arguments, paradoxes, meaning, and what numbers are.
Fallacies & paradoxes · Logic & argument · Meaning & language · Philosophy of mathematics
10/ month17 in allScience & Technology
How science works, what physics and biology tell us, and where technology is taking us.
AI & computing · Biology & evolution · Physics & cosmology · Scientific method · Technology & the future
10/ month12 in allMeaning, Art & the Good Life
Meaning, death, happiness, love and beauty.
Beauty & art · Death · Happiness & well-being · Love & friendship · Meaning of life
8/ month15 in all