Babel Bible

Philosophy

The academic discipline — epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, consciousness, philosophy of science and mathematics, democratic theory, and the eastern traditions read as philosophy rather than religion. Each unit speaks at three levels: Beginner for intuition, Intermediate for the formal arguments, Master for graduate-level depth with primary-source citations.

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Synthesis
The synthesizing frame — the four-pyramid axial model, symbols across contemplative traditions, and six chapters on reflexivity, disclosure, and practice. Held alongside the academic discipline, not under it.

Units

56 philosophy units, grouped by chapter.

Epistemology

  1. 20.01.01 — Epistemology: knowledge, justification, and truth shipped
  2. 20.01.02 — Theories of justification: foundationalism, coherentism, reliabilism stub
  3. 20.01.03 — Epistemological skepticism and responses: Cartesian doubt, contextualism, externalism stub
  4. 20.01.04 — Social epistemology: testimony, trust, virtue, and the social structure of knowledge shipped

Ethics

  1. 20.02.01 — Theories of justice: Rawls, Nozick, and fairness shipped
  2. 20.02.02 — Rights: natural, human, and legal shipped
  3. 20.02.03 — Freedom and liberty: negative, positive, and free will shipped
  4. 20.02.04 — The trolley problem and moral dilemmas shipped
  5. 20.02.05 — The good life: eudaimonia, flourishing, and meaning shipped
  6. 20.02.06 — Ethics of artificial intelligence shipped
  7. 20.02.07 — Consequentialism in depth: act vs. rule utilitarianism, preference satisfaction, effective altruism stub
  8. 20.02.08 — Deontology: Kant's categorical imperative, rights theory, contractualism (Scanlon) stub
  9. 20.02.09 — Virtue ethics: Aristotle's eudaimonia, contemporary neo-Aristotelianism, care ethics stub

Philosophy Of Physics

  1. 20.03.01 — The measurement problem in quantum mechanics shipped
  2. 20.03.02 — Philosophy of quantum mechanics: interpretations (Copenhagen, Many-Worlds, Bohmian, QBism) stub
  3. 20.03.03 — Space, time, and relativity: substantivalism vs. relationalism, the direction of time stub
  4. 20.03.04 — The anthropic principle and cosmic fine-tuning: Carter, Barrow-Tipler, and the multiverse response shipped

Aesthetics

  1. 20.04.01 — Aesthetics: beauty, art, and judgment shipped
  2. 20.04.02 — Kant's Critique of Judgment: the beautiful, the sublime, and disinterested pleasure shipped
  3. 20.04.03 — The sublime and the beautiful: Burke, Kant, and the eighteenth-century origins of aesthetics shipped

Philosophy Of Biology

  1. 20.05.02 — The unit of selection shipped
  2. 20.05.03 — Natural selection and teleology: function, design, and Darwinian explanation stub
  3. 20.05.04 — Reductionism in biology: levels of organization, multiple realizability, emergence stub
  4. 20.05.05 — Evo-devo: evolutionary developmental biology, deep homology, and the genetic tool-kit shipped

Consciousness

  1. 20.06.01 — Consciousness: the hard problem, qualia, and the mind-body debate shipped
  2. 20.06.02 — The hard problem of consciousness: qualia, the explanatory gap, and physicalist responses stub
  3. 20.06.03 — Theories of consciousness: Global Workspace, Integrated Information Theory (IIT), higher-order theories stub
  4. 20.06.04 — The neuroscience of consciousness: neural correlates, anesthesia, and disorders of consciousness shipped

Democracy

  1. 20.07.01 — Democratic theory: participation, deliberation, and representation shipped
  2. 20.07.02 — Deliberative democracy and the public sphere shipped

Philosophy Of Science

  1. 20.08.01 — Philosophy of science: demarcation, falsification, and paradigms shipped
  2. 20.08.02 — Scientific realism vs. anti-realism: structural realism, constructive empiricism (van Fraassen) stub
  3. 20.08.03 — Causation and explanation: counterfactual analysis, mechanistic explanation, causal inference stub
  4. 20.08.04 — Kuhn, Lakatos, and Laudan: paradigms, research programmes, and the theory-ladenness of scientific change shipped

Philosophy Of Math

  1. 20.09.01 — Philosophy of mathematics: Platonism, constructivism, and the nature of numbers shipped
  2. 20.09.02 — Foundations of mathematics: logicism (Russell), formalism (Hilbert), intuitionism (Brouwer) stub
  3. 20.09.03 — Mathematical ontology: Platonism, nominalism, structuralism, fictionalism stub
  4. 20.09.04 — Gödel's incompleteness theorems: the demise of Hilbert's program and the limits of formal reasoning shipped

Eastern Philosophy

  1. 20.10.01 — Confucianism: ethics, society, and the exemplary person shipped
  2. 20.11.01 — Buddhism: the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, and the question of suffering shipped
  3. 20.12.01 — Advaita Vedanta and Hindu philosophy: Brahman, Atman, and the question of reality shipped
  4. 20.13.01 — Daoism: wu wei, the Dao, and natural harmony shipped

Metaphysics

  1. 20.11.01 — Metaphysics — existence, identity, causation, modality shipped
  2. 20.11.02 — Metaphysics — depth: grounding, persistence, and possible worlds shipped
  3. 20.11.03 — Personal identity: Parfit, fission, teleportation, and the reductionist view of the self shipped

Philosophy Of Language

  1. 20.12.01 — Philosophy of language — reference, meaning, and use shipped
  2. 20.12.02 — Frege, Russell, and theories of reference shipped
  3. 20.12.03 — Speech act theory: Austin, Searle, Grice, and how words do things shipped

Philosophy Of Mind

  1. 20.13.01 — Philosophy of mind — consciousness, physicalism, and the mental shipped
  2. 20.13.02 — Embodied, embedded, enacted, extended cognition shipped

Political Philosophy

  1. 20.14.01 — Political philosophy — justice, authority, and the state shipped
  2. 20.14.02 — Social contract theory: Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau on sovereignty and legitimacy shipped
  3. 20.14.03 — The capabilities approach: Sen, Nussbaum, and justice as the freedom to live a valued life shipped

History Of Philosophy

  1. 20.15.01 — History of philosophy — ancient, medieval, modern, and continental shipped
  2. 20.15.02 — Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: transcendental idealism, the synthetic a priori, and the categories shipped
  3. 20.15.03 — Husserl's phenomenology: intentionality, the reduction, and transcendental consciousness shipped

Coverage

Ten chapters following the standard analytic / continental / comparative breakdown — see the philosophy plan for the chapter-by-chapter roadmap and primary-source spine.