Philosophy of mathematics, branch of philosophy that is concerned with two major questions: one concerning the meanings of ordinary mathematical sentences and the other concerning the issue of whether abstract objects exist.
A new branch of philosophy called experimental philosophy (X-phi for short) has studied the intuitive judgments of people (often students) when presented with well-known examples in epistemology and ethics.
Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, mental events, mental functions, mental properties, consciousness, and their relationship to the physical body, particularly the brain.
Philosophy of law, also called jurisprudence, branch of philosophy that investigates the nature of law, especially in its relation to human values, attitudes, practices, and political communities.
Using trivial or non-contentious illustrations, he argued in a radio talk, is fine in a branch of philosophy like the theory of knowledge, but not in moral philosophy, where "the category of the serious and the trivial is itself a moral category".
If ethics is the branch of philosophy concerned with practice, then in a sense all of Rand's philosophy is ethics, for Rand stresses "the supremacy of actual living over all other considerations," and insists that philosophy needs to be "brought up to the realm of actual living"—adding "I say intentionally brought up to it, not down" (Journal entry for 15 May 1934, p. 72; in Rand 1997, p. 73).
She believed epistemology was a foundational branch of philosophy and considered the advocacy of reason to be the single most significant aspect of her philosophy, stating, "I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason.
What branch of philosophy?
Theatre is entertainment, not a branch of philosophy.
Both were strong critics of traditional metaphysics, a branch of philosophy which explored the basis and perception of reality.
