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What is a philosophical problem?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

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Abstract

To what extent are philosophical questions and problems like other kinds of questions and problems, such as the those tackled by the physical sciences? Peter Hacker suggests that the problems of philosophy are conceptual, not factual, and that their solution or resolution is more a contribution to a particular form of understanding than to our knowledge of the world.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2006

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