Synoptic philosophy comes from the Greek word συνοπτικός ''synoptikos'' ("seeing everything together") and together with the word
philosophy
Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
, means the love of wisdom emerging from a coherent understanding of everything together.
Wilfrid Sellars
Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (May 20, 1912 – July 2, 1989) was an American philosopher and prominent developer of critical realism, who "revolutionized both the content and the method of philosophy in the United States".
Life and career
His father ...
(1962) used the term synoptic vision.
[Jay F. Rosenberg (1990). "Fusing the Images: Nachruf for Wilfrid Sellars." ''Journal for General Philosophy of Science'', 21: 1–23.]
See also
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Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...
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New Historicism
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Social constructivism
Social constructivism is a sociological theory of knowledge according to which human development is socially situated and knowledge is constructed through interaction with others.
Like social constructionism, social constructivism states th ...
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Systems thinking
Systems thinking is a way of making sense of the complexity of the world by looking at it in terms of wholes and relationships rather than by splitting it down into its parts. It has been used as a way of exploring and developing effective actio ...
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Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering''
References
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External links
Wilfrid Sellars (1962) Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man
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ttp://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/202/300/agora/2004/v3n01/208.htm Introduction: Lawrence Durrell, Text, Hypertext, Intertext
Metaphilosophy
Philosophical schools and traditions