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Therapeutic approach

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The therapeutic approach to philosophy sees philosophical problems as misconceptions that are to be therapeutically dissolved. The approach stems from Ludwig Wittgenstein.[1][2]

There is not a single philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, different therapies, as it were.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, §133d

Some noted philosophers who can be said to take a therapeutic approach are John McDowell, Alice Crary, and Richard Rorty. Quietists, philosophers associated with The New Wittgenstein and anti-philosophy are all pertinent to the therapeutic approach.

Hans-Johann Glock has argued against the plausibility of the therapeutic approach as accurately characterizing Wittgenstein's philosophy.[3] Hans Sluga and Rupert Read have advocated a "post-therapeutic" or "liberatory" interpretation of Wittgenstein.[4][5]

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  1. ^ Biletzki, Anat; Matar, Anat. "Ludwig Wittgenstein". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 2014-04-07.
  2. ^ Horwich, Paul (2013-03-03). "Was Wittgenstein Right?". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Dearden, Ian. "Therapy, Co-operation and Self-Diagnosis in Wittgenstein's Method".
  4. ^ "WPTC #2 – Sluga: Wittgenstein as a Liberatory Thinker". YouTube.
  5. ^ "Rupert Read and Hans Sluga on Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy". YouTube.