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Antiphilosophy - antitheoretical metaphilosophy critical of a priori (former) justification aiming to dissolve misconceptions that traditional philosophy makes.

Astrophilosophy - Attempts to look at astrophysical mechanics through the filter of philosophical thought and reasoning. Asks, particularly:
  • What would the world's great thinkers of the past do with the growing knowledge of today's scientific study? How would this knowledge inform their insight?
  • How should scientific insights [biology (DNA, life expectancy modification), chemistry (mood and performance altering drugs), astrophysics (pre-big bang, m-theory, likelihood of extrasolar life)] inform our modern understanding of what defines our perception of reality?
  • How do the spiritual traditions each handle our expanding books of knowledge? Does their approach reflect a stubbornness, or do they embrace science as a tool towards coming to greater truth?
  • What "greater truths" might be gleaned from the past twenty five years of scientific research?
  • What does this research contribute to a discussion of philosophy and spirituality that could not have been otherwise addressed? Do any such topics exist?

Given the freshest scientific data, across disciplines. the entirety of philosophical, spiritual, and cosmological thought to date... where do we stand? when we examine the great questions of mankind, in light of all of this knowledge, as it and we continue to evolve, what, if anything, can we discern, if either anew or in renewal?

Counterphilosophy - a philosophy that counters or opposes another philosophy

Cyberphilosophy - a subdiscipline of philosophy concerned with the philosophical effects and implications of computer technologies such as the Internet and virtual reality

Foolosophy - a foolish philosophy based on a a pun (joke, play on words) created by combining the words "fool" and "philosophy". The resulting word, "foolosophy" is an oxymoron. Philosophy is defined as "the pursuit of wisdom" and fool is defined as "person lacking in judgment or prudence.

Neurophilosophy - an interdisciplinary study of neuroscience and philosophy that explores the relevance of neuroscientific studies to the arguments traditionally categorized as philosophy of mind.

Physiophilosophy - knowledge of the principles of natural history

Pseudophilosophy - any philosophical system that does not meet mainstream academic standards

Psychophilosophy - a philosophy that changes an individual's personal psychology

Religiophilosophy - belief system incorporating religion and philosophy.

Sociophilosophy - approach to philosophy based on sociological enquiry.
  • Sociology - from the French sociologie, coined by Auguste Comte in 1834. Known as social physics, sociology is the study of society, human social interaction and the rules and processes that bind and separate people not only as individuals, but as members of associations, groups and institutions

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  • Beautifully Obscure Words
    • Tracing the Etymology of a Word
    • Typing the Typeface of Writing Types
    • WORD LIST: Feelings and Emotions >
      • FEATURE: Our Capacity for Love
    • FEATURED WORD LIST COLLECTIONS
    • BEAUTIFUL WORD LISTS
    • WORD LIST: Translating Your World >
      • Index of Untranslatable Words (Alphabetical)
  • WORD LIST: Rolling Log of Beautiful Words
  • WORD LIST: The Languages From Around the World
    • FEATURE: Words of the World >
      • DEFINING LOVE with a French Romance >
        • Fantastic Flair of Everyday French - Nature
  • IT’S ABOUT TIME! Website Housekeeping
    • FULL SITE INDEX - SITEMAP - All the Beautiful Words
    • A SERIES OF BEAUTIFUL WORDS - My Vocabulary Books and Blogs >
      • Download - The Logophile Lexicon - Words About Words
  • WORD LIST: People, Places and Things
    • To Sleep Perchance to Dream
  • WRITING SYSTEMS