Question List 1

Question for investigating Philosophy as a discipline:

1. What are the major fields of Philosophy? What are some basic concepts, issues, and methods of each?
2. What are the major temporal epochs of Western philosophy?
3. Is philosophy a global phenomenon? What is comparative philosophy? How do you identify philosophy in other cultures?
4. What is philosophy?
5. What is the difference between continental and analytic philoosphy?
6. What are: existentialism, postmodernism, positivism, romanticism, enlightenment philosophy, scientific revolution, renaissance, neo-platonism, scholasticism, game theory, cognitive science, moral psychology, ...
7. How does philosophy relate to literature and religion?
8. What are contemporary philosophers saying about art & politics?
9. Why did language become so important in 20th century philosophy?