Contemporary Philosophy - The Professionalization of Philosophy

The Professionalization of Philosophy

...the day of the philosopher as isolated thinker--the talented amateur with an idiosyncratic message--is effectively gone.

—Nicholas Rescher, "American Philosophy Today," 'Review of Metaphysics' 46 (4)

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