Philosophy of Mind, Psychology and Perception
- the study of mental phenomena, such as experience, feeling belief, consciousness and representation, their relation to the physcial world, and our knowledge of them
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Moral Philosophy
- addresses questions about good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime
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Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics
- studies and develops mathematical and logical systems, their interrelation, our knowledge of them and their ontological status
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History of Philosophy
- in particular Greek and Roman thought, Ancient Chinese Ethics, History of Analytic Philosophy, and Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment
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Metaphysics
- the study of the fundamental nature of the universe, including substances, properties, space, time and causation
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Political Philosophy
- addresses the nature of political systems and features of political societies such as obligation, rights and autonomy
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Philosophy of Religion
- the study of religions and arguments for the existence of God or Gods, the relations between them and the nature of theological concepts, such as hell.
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| Some work in the philosophy of religion takes places under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Philosophy and Religion | |