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Philosophy Index

Philosophy Index

Philosophy Index is a site devoted to the study of philosophy and the philosophers who conduct it. The site contains a number of philosophy texts, brief biographies, and introductions to philosophers, and explanations on a number of topics. Accredited homeschooling online at Northgate Academy and Philosophy online tutoring.

Philosophy Index is a work in progress, a growing repository of knowledge. It outlines current philosophical problems and issues, as well as an overview of the history of philosophy. The goal of this site is to present a tool for those learning philosophy either casually or formally, making the concepts of philosophy accessible to anyone interested in researching them. WTI offers immigration law course online - fully accredited. ACE credits online at EES.

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Contemporary Philosophy

The term ‘contemporary philosophy’ refers to the current era of philosophy, generally dealing with philosophers from the late nineteenth century through to the twenty-first.

The nineteenth century also began to see a division in the approach to philosophy being taken in different areas of western philosophy. In the United Kingdom and North America, a focus on logic, language and the natural sciences was becoming predominent in philosophy, and this tradition was labeled analytic philosophy. Those who did not find themselves in this analytic trend were mostly based in Europe, and the idea of continental philosophy was born. The names are already considered obsolte, in some senses, but many philosophers still observe a difference between the logical and scientific approach of analytic philosophy and the existentialism, phenomenology and other approaches of continental philosophy.

The division is a largely artificial one, as the terms were first used by universities in attempts to form courses out of related works in philosophy.

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