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The history of philosophy is the systematic study of the development of philosophical thought. It focuses on philosophy as rational inquiry based on argumentation, but some theorists also include myth, religious traditions, and proverbial lore. Western philosophy originated with an inquiry into the fundamental nature of the cosmos in Ancient ...
By period; Ancient. Ancient Egyptian; Ancient Greek; Medieval; Renaissance; Modern; Contemporary. Analytic; Continental; By region; African. Egypt; Ethiopia; South Africa
Functionalist in philosophy of mind. Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989). Influential American philosopher; Albert Camus (1913–1960). Absurdist. Paul Ricœur (1913–2005). French philosopher and theologian. Roland Barthes (1915–1980). French semiotician and literary theorist. Donald Davidson (1917–2003). Coherentist philosophy of mind. Louis ...
Ancient philosophy (600 B.C.E ... Ancient Greek philosophers by era (4 C) Ancient ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Homininaeid Era – Period prior to the existence of Homininae Homininid Era – Period prior to the existence of Hominini Prehistory – Period between the appearance of Homo ("humans"; first stone tools c. three million years ago) and the invention of writing systems (for the Ancient Near East : c. five thousand years ago).
Category: Philosophy by period. 50 languages. ... Philosophical literature by period (4 C) C. Philosophy by century (5 C, 9 P) Y. Philosophy by year (6 C, 157 P)
The era in which they flourished was one of turbulence in China, [4] fraught with chaos and mass militarization, but where Chinese philosophy was developed and patronized by competing bureaucracies. This phenomenon has been called the Contention of a Hundred Schools of Thought.
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. [1] [2] It is distinguished from other ways of addressing fundamental questions (such as mysticism, myth) by being critical and generally systematic and by its reliance on rational argument. [3]