Philosophy in pictures

jorndoe November 29, 2015 at 13:57 6025 views 8 comments

Came across this page, which has nifty diagrams:

http://philosophy-in-figures.tumblr.com/

Knowledge:

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Realism and anti-realism:

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And while I'm at it, let me just list some of the common, credible resources, here in the Lounge:

The SEP: http://plato.stanford.edu/
The IEP: http://www.iep.utm.edu/
The Basics: http://www.philosophybasics.com/
MathWorld: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/

Comments (8)

_db November 29, 2015 at 14:05 #4422 0 likes

I feel like images are helpful to people who want a direction to point them in, but ultimately they can be disastrous to the learning of the pupil. It's far too easy to simplify complex ideas and ignore important areas for the sake of aesthetic appeal.

jorndoe November 29, 2015 at 14:36 #4423 0 likes

Right, sometimes they can be like a street-sign giving some directions, or maps giving some context. Other times they can be like refreshers, for something you haven't looked at for a while.

For something reasonably simple, like justified true belief (knowledge), I think they're worthwhile. Digging into the gory details (like the Gettier cases), of course remains separate.

ssu November 29, 2015 at 21:21 #4432 0 likes

Interesting Venn diagrams.

But the above table, are Pythagoras and Feyerabend truly opposites? And how is Kuhn really in the anti-realism camp? After reading especially Kuhn (but also Feyerabend) this puzzles me, even if Kuhn does speak about the science community as a ...community.

More would I put the post-modernists there opposing the "Pythagoras". Of course I'm not the expert here...

For those who don't know it, here's "the greatest Venn diagram ever":

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