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Article: The End of Philosophy.
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Contemporary philosophers have given up trying to address the public.
Imagine that American colleges and universities decide to shut down all graduate and undergraduate departments of philosophy. The first reaction of philosophers would understandably be to lament our lost jobs. Beyond lamenting our personal fate, we are left to ponder the fate of the discipline of philosophy itself. Without graduate departments of philosophy, no new philosophers would be trained. Without philosophers, conferences and journals devoted to a discussion of philosophical topics would gradually disappear. Of course, some individuals might persist in asking certain kinds of questions ...