Abstract: This chapter-heading is the best I can think of to include a somewhat heterogeneous set of topics, all of which nevertheless seem not only relevant to 'what philosophy can do' but also connected with each other. For unless we confine the word 'can' to a severely restricted sense, what philosophy can do depends very much on certain practical considerations — how it is conceived and received in the practical world, what sort of opposition or alternatives to it we may expect, what philosophers need to bear in mind when teaching it, and so on. These topics, though in a fairly clear sense practical, are notwithstanding closely connected with the nature of philosophy (on which I hope to have shed at least some light in previous chapters): hence these are not matters that can be turned over too blithely to sociologists and psychologists and other empirical workers, though it would be highly desirable that philosophically-informed empirical workers should tackle them (as, to date, they have not).KeywordsConceptual TruthIvory TowerAbstract NounSocratic DialogueForm AloneThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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