Policing Philosophy’s Borders No More
Four stories:
1. At a conference several years ago I found myself in an argument with a philosopher who works in an area of philosophy commonly dismissed as not philosophy. We were considering the claim a third party had made that a fourth party’s work was not philosophy. I agreed that the third party’s claims were dubious, “But,” I asked, “Don’t you think we need to make some distinctions between what is or is not philosophy? Otherwise the original and specific contributions of philosophy will be disregarded.” Read more
The Trott Line 