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Aesthetics	Aesthetic response Formalism Institutionalism
Epistemology	Empiricism Fideism Naturalism Particularism Rationalism Skepticism Solipsism
Ethics	Consequentialism Deontology Virtue
Free will	Compatibilism Determinism Hard Incompatibilism Hard Libertarianism
Metaphysics	Atomism Dualism Idealism Monism Naturalism Realism
Mind	Behaviorism Eliminativism Emergentism Epiphenomenalism Functionalism Objectivism Subjectivism
Normativity	Absolutism Particularism Relativism Nihilism Skepticism Universalism
Ontology	Action Event Process
Reality	Anti-realism Conceptualism Idealism Materialism Naturalism Nominalism Physicalism Realism

By era

Chinese	Agriculturalism Confucianism Legalism Logicians Mohism Chinese naturalism Taoism Yangism
Greco-Roman	Presocratic Ionians Pythagoreans Eleatics Atomists Sophists Cyrenaics Cynicism Eretrian school Megarian school Academy Peripatetic school Hellenistic philosophy Pyrrhonism Stoicism Epicureanism Academic Skepticism Middle Platonism School of the Sextii Neopythagoreanism Second Sophistic Neoplatonism Church Fathers
Indian	Hindu Samkhya Nyaya Vaisheshika Yoga Mīmāṃsā Ājīvika Ajñana Cārvāka Jain Anekantavada Syādvāda Buddhist Abhidharma Sarvāstivadā Pudgalavada Sautrāntika Madhyamaka Svatantrika and Prasangika Śūnyatā Yogacara Tibetan
Persian	Mazdakism Mithraism Zoroastrianism Zurvanism

East Asian	Neotaoism Tiantai Huayan Chan Zen Neo-Confucianism Korean Confucianism
European	Christian Augustinianism Scholasticism Thomism Scotism Occamism Renaissance humanism
Indian	Vedanta Acintya bheda abheda Advaita Bhedabheda Dvaita Nimbarka Sampradaya Shuddhadvaita Vishishtadvaita Navya-Nyāya
Islamic	Aristotelianism Averroism Avicennism Illuminationism ʿIlm al-Kalām Sufi
Jewish	Judeo-Islamic

People

Analytic	Applied ethics Analytic feminism Analytical Marxism Communitarianism Consequentialism Critical rationalism Experimental philosophy Falsificationism Foundationalism / Coherentism Internalism and externalism Logical positivism Legal positivism Meta-ethics Moral realism Quinean naturalism Normative ethics Ordinary language philosophy Postanalytic philosophy Quietism Rawlsian Reformed epistemology Systemics Scientism Scientific realism Scientific skepticism Transactionalism Contemporary utilitarianism Vienna Circle Wittgensteinian
Continental	Critical theory Deconstruction Existentialism Feminist Frankfurt School Hermeneutics Neo-Marxism New Historicism Phenomenology Posthumanism Postmodernism Post-structuralism Social constructionism Structuralism Western Marxism
Miscellaneous	Kyoto School Objectivism Postcritique Russian cosmism more...

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African	Bantu Egyptian Ethiopian Africana
Eastern	Buddhist Chinese Indian Indonesian Japanese Korean Taiwanese Vietnamese
Middle Eastern	Iranian Islamic Jewish Pakistani Turkish
Western	American Australian British Scottish Canada Czech Danish Dutch Finland French German Greek Italian Maltese Polish Slovene Spanish
Miscellaneous	Amerindian Aztec Romanian Russian Yugoslav

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