WebAnalytic philosophy is a branch and tradition of philosophy using analysis, popular in the Western world and particularly the Anglosphere, which began around the turn of the 20th century in the contemporary era in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Scandinavia, and continues today.Analytic philosophy is often …

WebPhenomenology (from Greek φαινόμενον, phainómenon "that which appears" and λόγος, lógos "study") is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness.As a philosophical movement it was founded in the early years of the 20th century by Edmund Husserl and was later expanded upon by a circle of his followers at …

WebPostmodern philosophy is a philosophical movement that arose in the second half of the 20th century as a critical response to assumptions allegedly present in modernist philosophical ideas regarding culture, identity, history, or language that were developed during the 18th-century Enlightenment. Postmodernist thinkers developed concepts like …

WebPhilosophy – The study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.. Branches of philosophy. Aesthetics – The study of the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty.; Epistemology – The study of knowledge and belief.; Ethics – The …

WebThe philosophy of self examines the idea of the self at a conceptual level. Many different ideas on what constitutes the self have been proposed, including the self being an activity, the self being independent of the senses, the bundle theory of the self, the self as a narrative center of gravity, and the self as a syntactic construct rather than an entity.

WebA language-game (German: Sprachspiel) is a philosophical concept developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, referring to simple examples of language use and the actions into which the language is woven.Wittgenstein argued that a word or even a sentence has meaning only as a result of the "rule" of the "game" being played. Depending on the context, for example, …

WebPhilosophy of psychology is concerned with the philosophical foundations of the study of psychology.It deals with both epistemological and ontological issues and shares interests with other fields, including philosophy of mind and theoretical psychology.Philosophical and theoretical psychology are intimately tied and are therefore sometimes used …

WebThe philosophy of technology is a sub-field of philosophy that studies the nature of technology and its social effects.. Philosophical discussion of questions relating to technology (or its Greek ancestor techne) dates back to the very dawn of Western philosophy. The phrase "philosophy of technology" was first used in the late 19th …

WebContemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the early 20th century with the increasing professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.. The phrase "contemporary philosophy" is a piece of technical terminology in philosophy that refers to a specific …

WebIn logic and linguistics, a proposition is the meaning of a declarative sentence.In philosophy, "meaning" is understood to be a non-linguistic entity which is shared by all sentences with the same meaning. Equivalently, a proposition is the non-linguistic bearer of truth or falsity which makes any sentence that expresses it either true or false.. While …