Philosophy — Tier 3 Family Indexes

Tier 3 of the Philosophy library hosts dense reference catalogs that complement the conceptual Tier 1/Tier 2 notes. Where the upper tiers explain what an idea is, Tier 3 lists who, when, and where — the named entities a researcher cites by surname and year.

Tier 1 status

The Tier 1 root Philosophy library index is published and links to six Tier 2 surveys:

• Epistemology
• Metaphysics and Ontology
• Ethics and Moral Philosophy
• Philosophy of Mind and Language
• Philosophy of Science
• AI Ethics and Alignment

Tier 2 status

Six Tier 2 surveys are complete (one per branch listed above). Future Tier 2 expansions planned: Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Religion, Logic and Formal Methods, Non-Western Philosophy as standalone branches.

Tier 3 catalogs in this folder

• philosopher-catalog — chronological catalog of ~80+ named philosophers across Western, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese traditions. Dates, schools, major works, key concepts. The default starting point when a user asks “who was X” or “what did Y argue.”
• philosophical-positions-catalog — taxonomy of named positions across epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, ethics, free will, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion. Each row gives the canonical statement, proponents with year, standard objections, and modern defenders.
• argument-types-catalog — canonical arguments, paradoxes, and thought experiments by name: ontological / cosmological / teleological arguments for God, the problem of evil, Gettier cases, Trolley, Violinist, Chinese Room, Mary’s Room, zombies, Twin Earth, Ship of Theseus, Sorites, Liar, Pascal’s Wager, original position, etc.
• schools-and-movements-catalog — schools and movements from Pre-Socratic to contemporary (Vienna Circle, Frankfurt School, Kyoto School, New Confucianism, postcolonial, Africana, feminist waves) with founders, dates, principal figures, doctrines, canonical works.

Planned Tier 3 additions

• journal-and-press-catalog.md — Mind, Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Review, Nous, Ethics, OUP/CUP/MIT/Routledge philosophy lists.
• terminology-glossary.md — Greek + Latin + German + French technical vocabulary (eidos, ousia, Dasein, différance, époché, qualia, supervenience).

Adjacent

• History — Tier 3 Family Indexes (intellectual context, dynasty/era pairing)
• Religious Studies — Tier 3 (texts cited by medieval philosophers)
• Linguistics — Tier 3 (philosophy of language adjacency)
• Anthropology — Tier 3 (human-nature claims)
• Compendium root

Conventions

• Dates given as BCE / CE; “c.” for approximate.
• Work titles in italics via underscores.
• Catalogs are reference tables, not essays — keep entries 1-3 lines each.
• No emojis. SI units where applicable.