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Introduction to
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Doing Philosophy?
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Doing Philosophy
Many fields can be studied and learned
without ever actually working with the
tools in the field. For instance, chemistry
can be learned in depth without ever
picking up a test tube or mixing ionic
compounds. Philosophy, however, is more
about the methodology behind deriving
answers than it is about the answers
themselves. As such, students studying
philosophy must use the methodology of
philosophy on the philosophy they are
learning as they are learning it. Doing
philosophy involves asking the right
questions, critically examining the work of
previous philosophers, truly understanding
the works and the reasoning behind the
works, and possibly building on the works
of previous philosophers by expanding or
testing this methodology.
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