PHILOSOPHY AND THE STUDY OF ITS HISTORY |
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Authors: | ANDREW MELNYK |
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Institution: | Department of Philosophy, 439 General Classroom Building, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USAmelnyka@missouri.edu |
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Abstract: | Abstract: This article's goal is to outline one approach to providing a principled answer to the question of what is the proper relationship between philosophy and the study of philosophy's history, a question arising, for example, in the design of a curriculum for graduate students. This approach requires empirical investigation of philosophizing past and present, and thus takes philosophy as an object of study in something like the way that contemporary (naturalistic) philosophy of science takes science as an object of study. This approach also requires articulating a sense in which philosophy might make, or might have made, progress. |
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Keywords: | history of philosophy metaphilosophy progress |
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