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What is Philosophy?

What is Philosophy?. Ronald F. White, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy. Human Inquiry. Human Inquiry as questioning and answering State of Belief State of Doubt Individual Inquiry Collective Inquiry Familial Cultural Socio-Political Generational Intergenerational.

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What is Philosophy?

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  1. What is Philosophy? Ronald F. White, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy

  2. Human Inquiry • Human Inquiry as questioning and answering • State of Belief • State of Doubt • Individual Inquiry • Collective Inquiry • Familial • Cultural • Socio-Political • Generational • Intergenerational

  3. Two Forms of Human Inquiry • Descriptive Inquiry (Facts) • Discerns Truth from Falsity (is) • Prescriptive Inquiry (Values) • Discerns Good from Bad

  4. Descriptive Philosophy • Metaphysics • Epistemology • Ontology • Cosmology • Philosophy of • Science (general or particular) • Religion • Mind • Physics • Medicine

  5. Prescriptive Philosophy • Axiology: Study of value (good) • Aesthetics • Political Philosophy • Logic • Ethics • Deontology • Teleology • virtue

  6. Metaphysical Inquiry • Epistemological Inquiry • Ontological Inquiry

  7. Epistemological Inquiry • What is Epistemology? • Foundationalism (knowledge) • Realism • Rational foundation • Empirical Foundation • Pragmatic Foundation • Objectivity • Anti-Foundationalism (power) • Social Construction • Subjectivity

  8. Ontological Inquiry • What is Ontology? • Entity-Based Ontology (stability) • Materialism (material entities) • Idealism (mental entities) • Subjective idealism • Transcendental idealism • Mind-Body Problem (pluralism) • Nature v. Nurture Controversy • Process-Based Ontology (change) • Systems-Based Ontology

  9. Systems-Based Ontology • What is a system? • Closed v. Open Systems • Simple v. Complex Systems • Macro v. Micro Systems • Evolutionary (adaptive) v. Non-Evolutionary (non-adaptive) Systems • Living v. Non-Living Systems

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