3 Core Branches

• • Philosophical questions can be grouped into several branches.
  • These groupings allow philosophers to focus on a set of similar topics and interact with other thinkers who are interested in the same questions
  • Sometimes listed as the main branches are:
  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Logic
  • Metaphysics
• • There are many other subfields besides them and the different divisions are neither exhaustive nor mutually exclusive.
  • Some Examples are:
  • Political philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Aesthetics
  • These are sometimes linked under the general heading of value theory as they investigate normative or evaluative aspects.
  • Furthermore, philosophical inquiry sometimes overlaps with other disciplines in the natural and social sciences, religion, and mathematics.