On Philosophy and Philosophers

On Philosophy and Philosophers PDF Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108488455
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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Book Description
"Philosophers suffer from a peculiar occupational hazard; people are always coming up and asking them just what it is that they do and how they do it. This is not the sort of question that biologists or economists or musicians get asked; people know, pretty well, what they do, and they may or may not be interested in the details. But a philosopher is different - it is very hard to imagine just what he does with his time"--