Naturalist Farewells to Philosophy : A Note
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A recurring theme in philosophy is the suggestion that there are philosophical reasons to stop doing philosophy. This general idea is briefly sketched with regard to its various versions, other reasons to abandon philosophy, proposals regarding revisions of philosophy and possible paradoxical implications. Three uniting sub-themes of otherwise very different suggestions on what is the alleged reason to abandon philosophy are discerned. Of these, implied ideas of what philosophy is are subjected to some brief critical comments in connection to peculiar naturalist versions of the farewell to philosophy
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