Categories
The elementary constituents of matter and the interactions between them, studied at accelerators and in cosmic rays.
Political parties as organisations: how they form, compete, hold together and represent -- or fail to represent -- the people who vote for them.
Disease as it shows in tissue: what a cell or an organ looks like when it has gone wrong, and what that says about the cause.
Why organised violence breaks out, how it ends, and what makes a settlement hold.
The theory of teaching: what a teacher is doing when it works, and the traditions of thought that disagree about it.
Medicine for children: the diseases specific to them, and the fact that a growing body is not a small adult one.
What happens when a work is performed rather than fixed: liveness, the audience as part of the event, and performance as a way of studying culture.
The ways people differ from one another and stay themselves over time: traits, motives, and how stable any of it really is.
Getting oil and gas out of the ground: reservoir behaviour, drilling, and the production systems built around a field.
The origin of rocks: how igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks form, and what their texture and mineral content say about the pressure and temperature they came from.
What a drug does to the body and what the body does to a drug: mechanism, dose, effect and the reasons it stops working.
The science of medicines as they are prepared, dispensed and used: formulation, safety, and how a prescription behaves in a real patient.
Experience described from the inside: how the world shows up to a subject, taken as philosophy's starting point rather than as data about a mind.
Texts studied through their language and their transmission: what a manuscript actually says, how it came down to us, and what the words meant when they were written.
The study of fundamental questions about knowledge, existence, reason and value, pursued by argument rather than by experiment.
What education is for, and what it may do to get there: the aims worth having, and the authority a teacher is entitled to.
History as a philosophical problem: whether it has a direction, what counts as a historical explanation, and how far the past can be known at all.
How words hook onto the world: reference, truth, meaning, and what a speaker does in the act of saying something.
What mathematical objects are and how we can know anything about them: platonism, formalism, intuitionism and the arguments between them.
The mind and its place in nature: consciousness, intentionality, and how mental states relate to physical ones.