Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy/Hierarchy Draft

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(This is a draft. Feel free to revise if you disagree. Of course, any categorization of philosophy will necessarily be rather nebulous.)

Philosophy can be classified into three central subfields, or the "inner circle":

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[edit] Epistemology

anti-realism
coherentism
constructivism
contextualism
empiricism
fallibilism
foundationalism
idealism
infallibilism
intuitionism
knowledge
logical positivism
naïve realism
philosophical pessimism
pragmatism
probabilism
rationalism
relativism
reliabilism
Social epistemology

[edit] Metaphysics

determinism
dualism
materialism
ontology
existentialism
physicalism
Platonism
Philosophical realism
solipsism
teleology
foundation ontology
subtance
properties
modality
causation
law of nature

[edit] Logic, Mathematics, and philosophical logic

Analytic philosophy
Aristotelian logic
Syllogism
Deductive reasoning
Logical fallacies
Formal logic / Symbolic logic
First-order logic
Higher-order logic
Modal logic
Propositional logic
Temporal logic
Inductive reasoning
Problem of induction
Mathematical induction
Mereology
Multi-valued logic
Non-Aristotelian logic
General semantics
Rule of inference
Philosophy of mathematics
formal system

[edit] Ethics

Meta-ethics
ethical relativism
Ethical realism or Moral realism
Ethical intuitionism
Ethical non-naturalism
Ethical naturalism
Ethical consensus theory
Ethical subjectivism
Non-cognitivism
Moral skepticism
Normative ethics
consequentialism
The Good
Utilitarianism
Deontologism
Virtue ethics
hedonism
applied ethics
Medical ethics
Legal ethics
Environmental ethics
Business ethics
Corporate social responsibility
Abortion
Euthanasia
Cloning
altruism
Conscience
determinism
existentialism
Irrationalism and Aestheticism
moral character
moral development
nihilism
pacifism
philosophy of action
stoicism
value pluralism
value monism

[edit] Philosophy of science

determinism
philosophical naturalism
reductionism
greedy reductionism
holism

[edit] Philosophy of language

analytical Thomism
logical atomism
nominalism
universal grammar
the innateness hypothesis for syntactic structures
logical positivism
Philosophical realism (of universals)
grammatology

[edit] Philosophy of mind

[edit] Philosophy of art

[edit] Social philosophy

[edit] Philosophy by tradition

[edit] Religious Philosophy

[edit] Philosophers

[edit] Others