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Symposium: The Pursuit of Philosophy: Some Cambridge Perspectives
Falling In and Out of Love with Philosophy
Article first published online: 5 JAN 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2011.01729.x
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Forrester, J. (2012), Falling In and Out of Love with Philosophy. Metaphilosophy, 43: 96–111. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2011.01729.x
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Keywords:
- Buchdahl;
- Cambridge;
- empirical philosophy;
- Foucault;
- Keynes;
- Kuhn;
- moral sciences;
- paradox;
- Poincaré;
- Popper;
- psychoanalysis
Abstract
In this article, principally through autobiographical remarks, some observations concerning philosophical temperament are made, the example of Gerd Buchdahl as a textual interpreter of classic philosophical texts is invoked, and the position of philosophy in relation to history of science is explored, in particular in the work of Kuhn and Foucault. The article concludes with a reminder of the overall history of philosophy at Cambridge through a discussion of the history of the moral sciences.