Outlining Philosophy

[Daniel]

Philosophy is an ongoing discussion about knowledge; it is a broad field of inquiry in which the definition of knowledge itself is one of the subjects investigated. Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, spans the nature of the universe and human nature (of the mind and the body), the relationships between these, and between people. It explores what and how people come to know, including existence itself, and how that knowledge is reliably and usefully represented, and communicated between and among humans, whether in thought, by language, or with mathematics. Philosophy is the predecessor and complement of science, and its foundation. It develops notions about the issues which underlie science, and ponders the nature of thought itself. In science, the scientific method, which involves repeated observations of the results of controlled experiments, is an available and highly successful philosophical methodology. Within fields of study that are concerned directly with humans (economics, psychology, sociology and so forth), in which experimental methodologies are not generally available, subdisciplines of philosophy may be developed to provide a rational basis of study in the respective fields.

(Source: Wikipedia)

[Daniel]

Useful Philosophical Debates...

1.Debate:Chicken or egg?
2.Debate:If there is no objective truth, then is the claim "there is no objective truth" also not an objective truth?
3.Does History Matter?
4.Debate:Is a first cause of a process necessary, always possible, or sometimes impossible?
5.Debate:Can Objectivism develop beyond Ayn Rand's original formulation?
6.Debate:Can any man live without some code of morality?
7.Debate:Does the universe include everything, or does something outside the universe exist?
8.Debate:Why is there something rather than nothing?
9.Embryonic Stem Cells: Why or why not?
10.Debate:Why Reason?
11.Debate:Why does the conservative media often an ugly undertone?
12.Debate:Should pharmacists be forced to fill legal prescriptions they personally object to on moral grounds?

Part 2

1.Debate:If intelligent design is just as valid as evolution, where are all their scientific findings and publishings?
2.Debate:Does Darwinian natural selection suggest that bigotry is a necessary self-defense mechanism?
3.Debate:Does Darwinian natural selection suggest that homosexuality is bad for the survival of a species?
4.Debate:Is Darwinian natural selection compatible with Marxism?
5.Debate:Is the theory of macroevolution true?
6.Debate:Is Giving Birth the Bible Way Better?
7.Debate:Should Creationism/Intelligent design be taught as a scientific alternative to evolution in public schools?
8.Debate:Is global warming evident, and if so, is this the fault of man, and how must man stop it?
9.Debate:If the universe is young and it takes light millions of years to reach us from far off stars, how can we see them?
10.Debate:God, Earth and Global Warming
11.Is the evidence in favor of evolution convincing?
12.Debate:If the Bible didn't contain a creation story, would anyone even consider the idea of a young earth?
13.Debate:Is Relativity in direct conflict with the Genesis account?
14.Debate:Who feels that scientific related articles should only reference published research papers instead of websites when dealing with research instead of application?
15.Debate:If it could be unambiguously demonstrated that man is NOT the most evolved animal
16.Debate:Why are God's works always questioned?
17.Debate:Are there any elements of choice
18.Debate:Listing the Earth's most pressing needs in urgent order of fixing
19.Debate:Is homosexuality a mental illness?
20.Debate:Can the science of evolution be separated from the philosophy of it?
13.Debate:What is the real love?
14.Debate:who created God?
15.Debate: Why have conservatives let themselves get a bad name?
16.Debate: Is it possible for God to be timeless?
17.Debate: Is it possible for man to live a moral life without religion?
18.Debate: How do conservatives view the Open Source movement and software?
19.Debate: At what point does "Human" life begin?