This is an interview with professional philosophers about what is philosophy.
Here are a couple of definitions of my own.
1. Philosophy is a systematic attempt to answer the most important questions anyone can ever ask.
2. Philosophy is an attempt at extending all our common sense notions to their logical conclusion and seeing if there are any contradictions that arise. If there are, philosophy's other job is an attempt to see which side of the conflict is more plausible or whether the conflict is due to a conceptual confusion instead of a real conflict.
You're welcome to post your own definitions.
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I still like, "love of wisdom." If we need to be more specific and separate philosophy from other disciplines, we might add, "particularly as demonstrated by asking meta-questions about the structure and foundations of particular disciplines."
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