Philosophy Resource Guide

Philosophy (Gr. philosophia, “love of wisdom”), the rational and critical inquiry into basic principles. Philosophy is often divided into five main branches: metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics, and aesthetics. Additionally, the philosophy of language became so important during the 1900's that it is often considered another branch of philosophy. The two distinctively philosophical types of inquiry are analytic philosophy, which is the logical study of concepts, and synthetic philosophy, which is the arrangement of concepts into a unified system.

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A concise introduction to some of the basic conventions of writing in philosophy. Intended for an undergraduate audience from the Harvard College Writing Center.