Philosophy: A Contribution, not to Human Knowledge, but to Human Understanding

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 65:129-153 (2009)
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Throughout its history philosophy has been thought to be a member of a community of intellectual disciplines united by their common pursuit of knowledge. It has sometimes been thought to be the queen of the sciences, at other times merely their under-labourer. But irrespective of its social status, it was held to be a participant in the quest for knowledge – a cognitive discipline.

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