I feel like this is something you can't really just say and need to prove. But I'd add that in general almost all philosophical traditions are anti-historical because philosophy as an activity is predicated on denial of historical contingency.https://twitter.com/MikeBenchCapon/status/1025434374844678144 …
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Historicism is an activity predicated on the denial that it is a philosophical tradition
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Historical studies are like science, not so much a "a philosophical tradition" as a way of side-stepping pointless philosophical debates by doing something useful.
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The belief in the objectivity and utility of history, like scientism, is itself a historically-contingent belief or value. I'm a professional historian, but I won't claim our contemporary way of doing history is superior to other intellectual activities.
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I think analytical philosophers are more likely to make claims of objectivity than most historians. As for utility, I think reasonable arguments can be made about real world consequences. One metric is there are more public-facing historians now than public-facing philosophers
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