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Absurdism

Key Figures: Albert Camus, Søren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka, Eugène Ionesco, etc.

Aesthetics

Key Figures: Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Edmund Burke, David Hume, Francis Hutcheson, Frank Sibley, etc.

Altruism

Key Figures: Aristotle, Peter Singer, Thomas Nagel, William MacAskill, Immanuel Kant, etc.

Analytic Philosophy

Key Figures: Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, G.E. Moore, Saul Kripke, Rudolph Carnap, W.V.O. Quine, etc.

Artificial Intelligence

Key Figures: René Descartes, John Searle, Alan Turing, David Chalmers, Marvin Minsky, Roger Penrose, etc.

Bioethics

Key Philosophers: Immanuel Kant, Joseph Fletcher, Peter Singer, Alan Donagan, Stephen Toulmin, etc.

Blame

Key Figures: R. Jay Wallace, P.F. Strawson, Bernard Williams, J.J.C. Smart, etc.

Causality

Key Figures: George Berkeley, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, David Lewis, J.L. Mackie, etc.

Compatibilism

Key Figures: Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Harry Frankfurt, P.F. Strawson, William James, Gottfriend Wilhelm Leibniz, etc.

Consequentialism

Key Figures: Jeremy Bentham, J.S. Mill, Henry Sidgwick, Robert Nozick, G.E. Moore, Peter Singer, etc.

Continental Philosophy

Key Figures: Immanuel Kant, G.W.F. Hegel, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Søren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre, J. Derrida, etc.

Contractarianism

Key Figures: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, John Rawls, etc.

Deontology

Key Figures: Immanuel Kant, W.D. Ross, Robert Nozick, Thomas Nagel, Roger Scruton, H.A. Prichard, etc.

Determinism

Key Figures: Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, John Locke, Baron D'Holbach, Galen Strawson, etc.

Divine Command Theory

Key Figures: William of Ockham, Plato, William Lane Craig, Philipp Quinn, John Duns Scotus, etc.

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