Philosophy |
In General
* Idea: Concerns itself
with the fundamental questions of life, arising out of natural curiosity and
wonder; Philosophy is not getting used to the world, and being astonished
by it like children.
* Basic questions: How was
the world created? Is there any will or meaning behind what happens? Is there
life after death? How can we answer those questions? How ought we to live?
* History: Philosophy (as opposed
to myths and religion) seems to have started around 600 BC in Greece.
* The "mind-body problem":
The study of the relation between the mental and the physical; There is a Whiteheadian
philosophy for which mind and body are not to be treated as separate; Within
physics, ideas along these lines have been proposed by Shimony, but have not
been formalized into a physical theory.
* Remark: Some questions
cannot be answered by talking or thinking about them.
@ The mind-body problem: Kim 96 [survey];
Horgan BJPS(96) [rev];
Georgiev PBMB(20)-a2012 [quantum information theory approach];
> s.a. Wikipedia page.
Schools
* Natural philosophers:
Find underlying substance and laws of nature, by thinking about nature.
* Main lines of thought:
Rationalism, materialism.
Issues, Questions > see Ontology.
Philosophy of Science > see philosophy of physics; philosophy of science.
Online Resources > see Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Internet Encyclopedia of Science pages.
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