Philosophy of history the philosophical study of human history and of attempts to...

Philosophy of law also called general jurisprudence, the study of conceptual and theoretical...

Philosophy of liberation See LATIN AMERICAN PHI -. LOSOPH.

Philosophy of linguistics See PHILOSOPHY OF LAN -. GUAG. philosophy of literature, literary...

Philosophy of logic the arena of philosophy devoted to examining the scope and...

Philosophy of mathematics the study of ontological and epistemological problems raised by the...

Philosophy of mind the branch of philosophy that includes the philosophy of psychology,...

Philosophy of organism See WHITEHEAD.

Philosophy of psychology the philosophical study of psychology. Psychology began to separate from...

Philosophy of religion the subfield of philosophy devoted to the study of religious...

Philosophy of science the branch of philosophy that is centered on a critical...

Philosophy of the social sciences the study of the logic and methods of the social...

Philosophy, critical See BROAD, KANT.

Philosophy, Latin American See LATIN AMERICAN. PHILOSOPH.

Philosophy, speculative See SPECULATIVE PHILOSO -. PH.

Phrase marker See AMBIGUITY.

Phrase structure See PARSING.

Phrastic See PRESCRIPTIVISM.

Phronesis See ARISTOTLE.

Physical realization See REDUCTION.

Physicalism in the widest sense of the term, materialism applied to...

Physician-assisted suicide See BIOETHICS.

Physis Greek term for nature, primarily used to refer to the...

Pi Chinese term meaning 'screen', 'shelter', or 'cover'. Pi is Hsün...

Piaget Jean (1896–1980), Swiss psychologist and epistemologist who profoundly influenced questions,...

Pico della Mirandola Giovanni (1463–94), Italian philosopher who, in 1486, wrote a series...

Picture theory of meaning See MEANING, WITTGEN-. STEI. pien, Chinese Mohist technical term for...

Pien che See SCHOOL OF NAMES.

Pierre d’Ailly See D'AILLY.

Pineal gland See DESCARTES, PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.