There is often a considerable overlap between the questions addressed by social philosophy and
ethics or
value theory. Other forms of social philosophy include
political philosophy and
jurisprudence, which are largely concerned with the societies of
state and
government and their functioning. Social philosophy, ethics, and political philosophy all share intimate connections with other disciplines in the
social sciences and the
humanities. In turn, the social sciences themselves are of focal interest to the
philosophy of social science.' In his book,
What is Political Philosophy,
Leo Strauss made distinctions between social and political philosophy. Both fields of philosophy center around essentially the same subject, but social philosophy takes those questions from the broader view of "society". Social philosophy is broadly interdisciplinary, looking at all of
phenomenology,
epistemology, and
philosophy of language from a sociological perspective;
phenomenological sociology,
social epistemology and
sociology of language respectively. ==Relevant topics==