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Should we philosophize about philosophy? Why?
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October 6, 2005

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Peter Lipton
October 7, 2005 (changed October 7, 2005) Permalink

Here is one reason. A central task of philosophy is to figure out how our knowledge-seeking activities work and what they achieve. That is epistemology and it is, for example, a big part of the philosophy of science. So if you think that philosophy is in the knowledge-seeking business, then it is natural to be interested also in how that activity works and what it achieves.

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