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Over the past couple of years, philosophy Bites have been asking philosophers a simple question

and a question to which you would expect them to know the answer.

What is philosophy?

Here are some of their answers.

I'm Don Cupid.

Philosophy for me is critical thinking, trying to become aware of how one's own thinking works

of all the things one takes for granted of the way in which one's own thinking

shapes the things you're thinking about.

Alexander Nehemus, what do you think, philosophy is?

I can't answer that directly. I will tell you why I became a philosopher.

I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about many, many things, ideally with knowledge,

but sometimes with not quite the amount of knowledge that I would need if I were to be a specialist in them.

It allows you to be many different things and plurality or complexity as you may have realized from our conversation before is very very important to me

Barry Smith. What do you think philosophy is?

I think it's thinking fundamentally clearly and well about the nature of reality in our place in it

so as to understand better what goes on around us and what our contribution is to that reality and its effect on ours.

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