Überlegungen zur Sprache und Geschichte der Philosophie

Abstract

This paper challenges a view often held by analytic philosophers according to which philosophy is independent from the history of philosophy, by setting out to undermine the analogy between philosophy and science on which the view in question is plausibly understood to depend. Philosophy is neither a scientific theory nor is it based on a pre-existing subject-matter. Rather, philosophical problems and topics are fundamentally constituted by language. This distinctive feature makes it necessary for philosophers to engage with the probl Show more