Philosophy

In a literal sense it is the “love of wisdom” as it comes from the Ancient Greek philosophia.   Broadly speaking it can be seen as the search for truth.  It has many different areas such as Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Logic, Aesthetics, Existentialism and Gender Studies. Philosophers also study the history of philosophy and specific thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, De Beauvoir, Wittgenstein, Appiah, and Nussbaum.