1900s philosophy

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Section 1: Early Analytic Philosophy

1: Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore

2: rejection of British idealism

3: logical analysis

4: sense data and commonsense.

Section 2: Logical Positivism

1: Vienna Circle

2: verification principle

3: elimination of metaphysics

4: protocol sentences

5: unity of science.

Section 3: Wittgenstein's Tractatus

1: Picture theory of language

2: logical form

3: saying vs. showing

4: limits of language

5: mysticism.

Section 4: Wittgenstein's Later Work

1: Language games

2: family resemblances

3: private language argument

4: rule-following

5: philosophical therapy.

Section 5: Phenomenology

1: Edmund Husserl

2: intentionality

3: phenomenological reduction

4: eidetic intuition

5: lifeworld.

Section 6: Heidegger's Existential Analytics

1: Dasein

2: being-in-the-world

3: authenticity

4: temporality

5: critique of metaphysics.

Section 7: Sartre and Existentialism

1: Existence precedes essence

2: bad faith

3: radical freedom

4: nothingness

5: engaged literature.

Section 8: de Beauvoir's Feminist Existentialism

1: The Second Sex

2: woman as other

3: ethics of ambiguity

4: oppression and liberation.

Section 9: Frankfurt School Critical Theory

1: Horkheimer and Adorno

2: dialectic of enlightenment

3: culture industry

4: instrumental reason.

Section 10: Habermas's Social Philosophy

1: Communicative action

2: discourse ethics

3: public sphere

4: colonization of lifeworld

5: deliberative democracy.

Section 11: Structuralism

1: Saussurean linguistics

2: Lévi-Strauss and anthropology

3: binary oppositions

4: myth and structure.

Section 12: Foucault's Genealogies

1: Power/knowledge

2: archaeology of knowledge

3: disciplinarity

4: biopolitics

5: subjectivity.

Section 13: Derrida and Deconstruction

1: Différance

2: logocentrism

3: metaphysics of presence

4: textuality

5: undecidability.

Section 14: American Pragmatism

1: Charles Peirce

2: William James

3: John Dewey

4: truth as utility

5: experimentalism.

Section 15: Philosophy of Science

1: Popper's falsificationism

2: Kuhn's paradigm shifts

3: scientific revolutions

4: realism vs. anti-realism.

Section 16: Meta-Ethics

1: G.E. Moore's naturalistic fallacy

2: emotivism

3: prescriptivism

4: moral realism and anti-realism.

Section 17: Political Philosophy

1: Rawls' justice as fairness

2: Nozick's libertarianism

3: communitarianism

4: capabilities approach.

Section 18: Philosophy of Language

1: Speech act theory

2: Gricean pragmatics

3: Kripke on naming and necessity

4: possible worlds semantics.

Section 19: Philosophy of Mind

1: Mind-body problem

2: identity theory

3: functionalism

4: qualia

5: hard problem of consciousness.

Section 20: Postmodernism

1: Lyotard's incredulity toward metanarratives

2: Rorty's contingency

3: Baudrillard's simulacra

4: postmodern ethics.

Section 21: Feminist Philosophy

1: Sex vs. gender

2: patriarchy

3: standpoint theory

4: intersectionality

5: ethics of care.

Section 22: Non-Western Philosophy

1: Islamic philosophical revival

2: African philosophy and ubuntu

3: Buddhist modernism

4: comparative methodology.