Re:What, exactly, do philosophers do?
by pmoriarty on Monday September 18, 2017 @04:28PM
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"Philosophers, in short, do all kinds of things: from pushing the boundaries of exotic logics, to solving ethical problems, to systematizing natural language or understanding the metaphysics of causality."
I think you're mostly talking about analytic philosophy.[1] That's dominant in English-speaking countries, and in the process of dominating most everywhere else. But Continental philosophy[2] also exists, and has pretty different concerns and methodologies.
Re:What, exactly, do philosophers do?
by ue_ on Monday September 18, 2017 @09:03PM
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That said, there's a big argument to be made that the distinction between analytic and continental is false, useless and on a shaky foundation of approximations even with massive overlap.
I think you're mostly talking about analytic philosophy.[1] That's dominant in English-speaking countries, and in the process of dominating most everywhere else. But Continental philosophy[2] also exists, and has pretty different concerns and methodologies.
I encourage everyone to check out both.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_philosophy
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy