Sophy: A Philosophical Maze, by Andy Simmonds


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Overview of topics divided up in the traditional realms of philosophy:

key: God, religion and morals The mind and knowledge Computing and logic Biological life Cosmology and existence Society

 

Introduction
Metaphysics
God
The nature of God
Proofs of God's existence
Philosopy of the mind
The Mind-Body problem
Consciousness
Artificial Intelligence
Ontology - the study of existence
René Descartes' "I think therefore I am"
- and where do we go next?
Cosmology
Time and Space
Quantum Superposition and Schrödinger's Cat
Where are the aliens?
Epistemology
- the study of knowledge and belief
Epistemology and knowledge
Intelligence and IQ
Argument
The Scientific Method
Occam's razor
Creationism v. Evolution by natural
Logic
Boolean algebra
Venn diagrams
Argument
Unsolvability and the Entscheidungsproblem
Computer programming paradigms
Moral philosophy
Meta-ethics
- the meaning of moral terms and the nature of morality
Do we have free will?
Morals and ethics
What is Life?
Early Man, or really: What is man?
Normative ethics
- what is right and wrong in theory (in the abstract)
Moral codes
Applied/descriptive ethics
- what is right and wrong in practice (case studies)
Society
Political Systems
Religion
Religions
The problem of the existence of evil
Creationism v. Evolution by natural selection
The Christian Trinity
Conclusions
Assumptions revisited
Conclusion - Life
Conclusion - the Universe
Conclusion - and Everything
Conclusion - God
Conclusion - Morals
References
Print references
On-line references

The basis for the framework of this overview came from "One Hundred Philosophers", by Peter King, but I have added 'Religion', as that seems to me to be particularly involved in morality and indeed in metaphysics. Some computing and education topics appear too, for reasons which may or may not become apparent.


Computing thread:
Ways to program computers
Artificial Intelligence
The first computers
Unsolvability and the Entscheidungsproblem
Computer programming paradigms
Number types for computers
Education thread:
Epistemology and knowledge
Intelligence and IQ
Argument
Scientific method

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