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Philosophizing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

A. B. Palma
Affiliation:
Macquarie University

Extract

1. Many philosophers, including the later Wittgenstein, have concerned themselves with the question ‘What is philosophy?’ In this paper I shall say some things about the activity of philosophizing. What I shall say is not new or revealing; none the less, it might be worth saying what I do say. For philosophers, especially if they are professionally occupied with their subject, sometimes overlook some interesting, and some human, aspects of their profession.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1991

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