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[from 'Philosophical Insignificance of A Priori Knowledge' by David Papineau, in 1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism ]

Full Idea

I would say that all worthwhile philosophy consists of synthetic theorizing, evaluated against experience.

Gist of Idea

All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience

Source

David Papineau (Philosophical Insignificance of A Priori Knowledge [2010], §1)


A Reaction

This is the view that philosophy is just science at a high level of abstraction, and he explicitly rejects 'conceptual analysis' as a fruitful activity. I need to take a stance on this one, but find I am in a state of paralysis. Welcome to philosophy...