is it possible to make a straightforward categorical distinction between philosophy, no matter how pyrrhonian it purports to be, and cognitive-behavioural therapy? What is their relation? — sime
philosophy as the passive analysis of signs, language and human behaviour — sime
How can philosophy leave everything in its place if philosophy is supposed to have therapeutic value? — sime
Is it really the case that a therapeutic philosophy can be qualitatively different from classical approaches to philosophy that unashamedly advance metaphysical doctrines? — sime
is it possible to make a straightforward categorical distinction between philosophy, no matter how pyrrhonian it purports to be, and cognitive-behavioural therapy? What is their relation? — sime
this style of philosophy claims to be both
I) Resolutely pyrrhonian in being explicitly against advancing controversial or speculative metaphysical doctrines and "leaving everything in its place", making no attempt to interfere with how humans behave, communicate or form beliefs, and refusing to take sides in philosophical disagreements.
the Wittgensteinian conception of philosophy as the passive analysis of signs, language and human behaviour as they naturally occur in their respective forms of life, for the modest purpose of dispelling psychological confusion and misunderstandings relating to the ordinary use of language. — sime
How can philosophy leave everything in its place if philosophy is supposed to have therapeutic value? — sime
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