Bibliography: Resources for Understanding Philosophical Practice.

One of the questions I frequently receive is, “What exactly do philosophers do all day long?”
Over the years, I have tried to give an answer, and to point questioners in the direction of
helpful materials that will better answer their question. It is with this question in mind that I
originally set about creating this bibliography.

Each of the texts listed below gives a perspective on the practice of philosophy. This means that
they focus more on philosophical method and pedagogy in general, and not on specific
historical periods or figures, or philosophical topics such as epistemology, metaphysics, ethics,
and so forth. (Please note that it is possible that these questions may be discussed in the
context of the larger examination of philosophical practice.)

In perusing these, readers will soon note that there are many ways to understand the nature of
philosophical practice, not all of which are in agreement with each other.

Finally, this list makes no claims to be exhaustive, and I will add to it from time to time as new
materials become available.

Suggestions for additions to this list are welcomed. An online version of this bibliography is
posted at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~phildept/secondary_sources.html#practice.

Beyer, C., & Burri, A. (2007). Philosophical Knowledge -- Its Possibility and Scope. New York:

Rodopi.

Buck, W. (2009). Welcome to My Philosophy Class. Philosophy Now, 71.

Cottingham, J. (2009). The Fine, the Good, and the Meaningful. The Philosophers' Magazine, 45.

Retrieved from http://www.philosophypress.co.uk/?p=6

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Dummett, M. (2010). The Nature and Future of Philosophy. New York: Columbia University

Press.

Ganeri, J., & Carlisle, C. (Eds.). (2010). Philosophy as Therapeia. Royal Institute of Philosophy

Supplement, 66(1).

Glock, H. (2008a). What is Analytic Philosophy? New York: Cambridge University Press.

Glock, H. (2008b). Analytic Philosophy and History: A Mismatch? Mind, 117(468), 843-865.

Gutting, G. (2009). What Philosophers Know: Case Studies in Recent Analytic Philosophy. New

York: Cambridge University Press.

Hadot, P. (1995). Philosophy as a Way of Life. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Haldane, J. (1999). Thomism and the Future of Catholic Philosophy. In Faithful Reason: Essays

Catholic and Philosophical (pp. 3-13). New York: Routledge.

Haldane, J. (2001). The Diversity of Philosophy and the Unity of Its Vocation: Some Philosophical

Reflections on Fides et Ratio. In Faithful Reason: Essays Catholic and Philosophical (pp.

31-41). New York: Routledge.

Hankey, W. (2006). 9/11 and the History of Philosophy. Animus, 11. Retrieved from

http://www2.swgc.mun.ca/animus/Articles/Volume%2011/Hankey.pdf

Hare, P. (Ed.). (1988). Doing Philosophy Historically. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books.

Jaeger, W. (1948). Appendix II: On the Origin and Cycle of the Philosophical Ideal of Life. In

Aristotle: Fundamentals of the History of His Development (pp. 426-461). Oxford:

Clarendon Press.
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Kaufman, D. A. (2006). Knowledge, Wisdom and the Philosophy. Philosophy, 81(1), 129-151.

Koopman, C. (2010). Bernard Williams on Philosophy's Need for History. Review of Metaphysics,

64(1), 3-30.

Leiter, B. (2004). The Future for Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press.

Leiter, B. (2010). Analytic and Continental Philosophy. The Philosophical Gourmet Report.

Retrieved October 15, 2010, from http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/analytic.asp

Maritain, J. (2005). Definition of Philosophy. In E. I. Watkin (Tran.), An Introduction to

Philosophy (pp. 64-70). Rowman & Littlefield.

McCann, H. (2003). Philosophy in America at the Turn of the Century. Charlottesville, VA:

Philosophy Documentation Center. Retrieved from http://www.pdcnet.org.ezp-

prod1.hul.harvard.edu/pages/Products/electronic/philamer.htm

Nehamas, A. (2000). The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault. Berkeley, CA:

University of California Press.

O'Hear, A. (Ed.). (2001). Philosophy at the New Millennium. Philosophy: Royal Institute of

Philosophy Supplement, 48.

O'Hear, A. (2001). Editorial: What Philosophy Is. Philosophy, 76(1), 1-2.

O'Hear, A. (Ed.). (2010). Conceptions of Philosophy. Philosophy: Royal Institute of Philosophy

Supplement, 65.

Outlaw, L. T. (1996). The "Future" of Philosophy in America. In On Race and Philosophy (pp.

183-204). New York: Routledge.

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Peperzak, A. T. (2006). Thinking: From Solitude to Dialogue and Contemplation. New York:

Fordham University Press.

Pieper, J. (2006). What Does it Mean to Philosophize? Four Lectures. In B. Wald (Ed.), R.

Wasserman (Tran.), For the Love of Wisdom: Essays on the Nature of Philosophy (pp. 27-

80). San Francisco: Ignatius Press.

Putnam, H. (1997). A Half Century of Philosophy, Viewed From Within. Daedalus, 126(1), 175-

208.

Quine, W. V. O. (1979). Has Philosophy Lost Contact with People? In Theories and Things (pp.

190-193). Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Read, R. (2010). On Philosophy's (lack of) Progress: From Plato to Wittgenstein (and Rawls).

Philosophy, 85(333), 341-368.

Rorty, A. O. (2008). The Dramatic Sources of Philosophy. Philosophy and Literature, 31(1), 11-

30.

Rorty, R. (1980). Philosophy in America Today. In Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays, 1972-

1980 (pp. 211-230). University of Minnesota Press.

Sallis, J. (2007). The Verge of Philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Schwatz, N. (1994). Philosophy as Blood Sport. Philosophy as Blood Sport. Retrieved October 15,

2010, from http://www.sfu.ca/philosophy/swartz/blood_sport.htm

Striker, G. (1999). Why Study the History of Philosophy? Harvard Review of Philosophy, 7, 15-

18.
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Wilhelmsen, F. D. (1987). The Great Books: Enemies of Wisdom. Modern Age, 34(3/4), 323-331.

Williams, B. (2000). Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline. Philosophy, 75(4), 477-496.

Williamson, T. (2007). The Philosophy of Philosophy. New York: Blackwell.

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