The Field

Philosophy is the study of all aspects of the world. Hence the range of topics is broad, encompassing questions of ethics and morality, aesthetics, knowledge, reality, religion, science, language, society, politics, and more.  The core fields in philosophy are logic, ethics, metaphysics, and theory of knowledge. There are also many specialized fields, such as the philosophy of science, the philosophy of art, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of language. A student may wish to develop a special competence in one of the specialized fields, or in the philosophy of a given period (for example, in ancient philosophy or the philosophy of the 17th century), or in a particular school or style of philosophy (for example, in continental or in analytic philosophy).