So, my sympathetic reading of his statement is that he actually does appreciate some philosophers and their work but makes a relatively arbitrary and idiosyncratic demarcation of the stuff he finds useful in their work, deeming it not philosophy, but something else.
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Perhaps some of the conceptual conflict arises from the parts of philosophy that actually try to collapse the distinction between practical and theoretical rationality, like pragmatism. They might, in part, actually be reaching for some of same goals (tho I’m not totally sure)
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Anyway, don’t wanna ramble on too much since we’ve already covered most of this ground, but if you haven’t already, you should definitely check out the school of philosophy called “pragmatism” which may intersect with some of your concerns, goals. Thanks for discussing w us.
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I'm not really interested in the question of whether what you do is or isn't philosophy (perfectly happy to let "philosopher" be a self-identified category!) but I think you might be underestimating how much of philosophy is self-help for nerds.
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A (philosopher) friend suggested to me that neurotypicals doing philosophy often take a straightforward question and through unpacking it realise that it's more confusing than they thought, while autistic people asked the question because they were already confused about it.
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