{{Short description|Philosophical concept}} '''Speculative philosophy''' is philosophy that seeks to reflect on all aspects of human experience to construct a comprehensive view of reality.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Broad |first=C. D. |title=Contemporary British Philosophy: Personal Statements First Series |publisher=Routledge |year=2003 |editor-last=Muirhead |editor-first=J. H. |location=London |chapter=Critical and Speculative Philosophy}}</ref> Its aim is to integrate the insights from various domains into a unified understanding of existence.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Citation |last=Gustavsson |first=Kent |title=Charlie Dunbar Broad |date=2024 |work=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2024/entries/broad/ |access-date=2026-02-02 |edition=Summer 2024 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |editor2-last=Nodelman |editor2-first=Uri}}</ref>
Historically, speculative philosophy has been central to the work of philosophers like Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and Alfred North Whitehead, who all developed large-scale theories about reality, existence, and knowledge.<ref name=":1">{{Citation |last=Viney |first=Donald |title=Process Theism |date=2022 |work=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-theism/ |access-date=2024-12-19 |edition=Summer 2022 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}}</ref> The term was coined by C. D. Broad as a distinction from critical philosophy.<ref name=":2" />
== See also ==
* Speculative idealism * Speculative realism
== References == Category:Concepts in metaphilosophy Category:Hegelianism <references />{{Philosophy-stub}} Category:Metaphysics