Combining Philosophers

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9786	Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard [Cartwright,R]
	Full Idea: The notion that philosophy can be done cooperatively, in the manner of scientists or engineers engaged in a research project, seems to me absurd. And yet few philosophers can survive in isolation.
	From: Richard Cartwright (Intro to 'Philosophical Essays' [1987], xxi)
	A reaction: This why Nietzsche said that philosophers were 'rare plants'.