What is philosophy, and who counts as a philosopher? My two favorite answers come from Alvin Plantinga and Arthur Schopenhauer. According to Plantinga, philosophy is just thinking hard about something. Schopenhauer put it a bit more loftily: philosophy represents our attempt to “lay bare the true nature of the world.” (At least, this is true in philosophy’s more ambitious moments.) Additionally, I would submit that philosophy is the intensification of a natural human activity.

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David Egan on Philosophy [Aeon]

Alvin Plantinga and William Lane Craig on Philosophy [Reasonable Faith]

Transcript [emersongreenblog]

Is philosophy dead? [iTunes]

You’re wrong to hate philosophy [iTunes]