Simply put, educational philosophy is a science that studies the essence, cause, process and nature of education. Since the mid-20th century, people have been arguing about the scope, purpose and even what it should be.
This branch, similar to philosophy of law or medicine, usually does not belong to the research project of philosophy department. Educational philosophers pay attention to educational problems from the perspective of philosophy. This kind of research depends on the classical branches of philosophy, such as epistemology or epistemology, ethics, social or political philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and in some cases, philosophy of mind and aesthetics.