Instant Philosophy

Introduction - Thales - Natural Philosophy - Lao Tzu - Daoism - Pythagoras - Numbers - Buddha - Suffering - Confucius the Golden Rule - Heraclitus - Change - Zeno - Motion/Paradox - Protagoras - Sophism - Democritus - Materialism - Socrates - Socratic Method - Socrates - Euthanasia - Plato - Universals/the Cave - Plato - Moral Realism/the Ring of Gyges - Plato - the Ideal State - Plato - Art and Lies - Diogenes - Cynicism - Aristotle - Virtue - Aristotle - Teleology - Aristotle - Citizenship - Aristotle - Catharsis - Aristotle - Friendship - Zhuang Zi - Illusion - Epicurus - Moderation - Epicurus - Death - Epicurus - Evil - Cicero - Just War - Seneca - Stoicism - St Irenaeus - the Irenaean Theodicy - St Augustine - Sin - Hypatia - Paganism - Boethius - Christian Ethics - Bodhidharma - Zen - Avicenna/Averroes/Khayyam - the Arabic Enlightenment - St Anselm - the Ontological Argument - St Aquinas - Scholasticism - St Aquinas - the Cosmological Argument - Ockham - Ockham's Razor - Erasmus - Humanism - Machiavelli - Realpolitik - More - Utopia - Montaigne - Scepticism (epistemology) - Bacon - Scientific Method - Hobbes - the State of Nature - Descartes - Certainty - Descartes - Rationalism - Descartes - Dualism - Descartes - the Trademark Argument - Pascal - Pascal's Wager - Spinoza - Monism - Locke - Empiricism - Locke - Tolerance - Locke - Personal Identity - Leibniz - Principle of Sufficient Reason - Leibniz - Possible Worlds - Berkeley - Idealism - Yamamoto Tsunetomo - Bushido - Hume - Hume's Fork - Hume - the Is-Ought - Gap/Sentimentalism - Hume - Induction - Hume - Argument from Design/Teleological Argument - Hume - Miracles - Rousseau - Romanticism - Adam Smith - the Free Market - Voltaire - Deism - Kant - Transcendental Idealism - Kant - Deontology - Kant - Rights - Kant - the Sublime - Kant - the Argument from Morality - Burke - Conservatism - Paine - Revolution - Bentham - Utilitarianism - Bentham - Animal Rights - Wollstonecraft - the Rights of Women - Hegel - the Dialectic - Schopenhauer - Pessimism - Feuerbach - Anthropomorphism - Stirner - Egoism - Mill - Rule Utilitarianism - Mill - The Principle of Harm - Mill - Democracy - Darwin/Wallace - Evolution - Kierkegaard - Angst - Thoreau - Civil Disobedience - Marx - Alienation - Marx - Superstructure - C. S. Pierce - Pragmatism - William James - Free Will - William James - Belief - Kropotkin/Bakhunin - Anarchism - Nietzsche - Nihilism - Nietzsche - Will to Power - Husserl - Intentionality - Bergson - Vitalism - Duhem/Quine - Scientific Hypotheses - McTaggart - Time - Russell - Mathematics - Russell - Non-existence - Russell - Other Minds - Saussure - Structuralism - Moore - the Naturalistic Fallacy - Clive Bell - Significant Form - Heidegger - Being - Collingwood - Art and Emotion - Wittgenstein - Saying and Showing - Wittgenstein - Private Language - Hempel - Hempel's Ravens - Goodman - Grue - Marcuse - Consumerism - Hayek - Spontaneous Order - Skinner - Behaviourism - Ayer - Verificationism - Popper - the Open Society - Ryle - Category Mistakes - Sartre - Authenticity - Arendt - Totalitarianism - Levinas - the Other - Quine - Naturalism - Quine/Sapir-Whorf - Conceptual Schemes/Constructivism - Simone de Beauvoir - Feminism - Simone Weil - Salvation - Popper - Falsification - Ayer/Hare - Emotivism/Prescriptivism - Turing - Artificial Intelligence - Camus - the Absurd - Berlin - Liberty - Smart - Mind-Brain Identity - Gadamer - Hermeneutics - Debord - Situationism - Gettier - Knowledge - Barthes - Death of the Author - Hilary Putnam - Solipsism/Brains in Vats - Hilary Putnam - Functionalism - Rawls - Veil of Ignorance - Kuhn - Paradigms - Foucault - Power and Surveillance - Foucault - Sex - Judith Jarvis Thompson - Abortion - Antony Flew - Religious Language - Derrida - Deconstruction - Rorty - Anti-realism - Plantinga - Faith - Searle - the Chinese Room - Kate Millet - Patriarchy - Nagel - Qualia - Nozick - Libertarianism - Nozick - the Pleasure Machine - Dennett - Zombies - Baudrillard - Hyperreality - Parfit - the Tele-transporter - Parfit - Environmentalism/the Repugnant Conclusion - Churchland - Folk Psychology/Eliminative Materialism - McKinnon/Dworkin - Pornography - Singer - Effective Altruism - Singer - Speciesism - Chalmers - Pan-psychism - Philippa Foot - the Trolley Problem - Jaegwon Kim - Epiphenomenalism - Judith Butler - Gender - Bostrom - Transhumanism - Glossary and Further Reading.