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According to Aristoxenus, when Plato gave his lecture ‘On the Good’, he lost his audience. As he went on about numbers, geometrical figures, and astronomy, finally concluding ‘The Good is One’, they realized that they were not going to hear anything useful about means to health, wealth, or happiness. Most of them left disgruntled. According to Philip Kitcher in his latest book, What’s the Use of Philosophy?, much of contemporary analytic philosophy has lost its audience, because it offers them nothing useful, though he makes no analogy to Plato (43, 58; all page references to the book). Kitcher’s sympathies are with the fleeing audience. He wants philosophy to change, to win them back. Surprisingly, Kitcher treats his call for reform as novel. He complains that the question of the worth of analytic philosophy ‘never even surfaces’ and seeks ‘to initiate a process of self-interrogation’ (119, 145; his italics). This is unfair to a long-standing genre: critiques of analytic philosophy as

Philip Kitcher’s Purge of Philosophy Open access Published: 02 March 2024 Volume 52 , pages 527–535 ( 2024 ) Cite this article You have full access to this open access article Download PDF Save article View saved research Philosophia Aims and scope Submit manuscript Philip Kitcher’s Purge of Philosophy Download PDF According to Aristoxenus, when Plato gave his lecture ‘On the Good’, he lost his audience. As he went on about numbers, geometrical figures, and astronomy, finally concluding ‘The Good is One’, they realized that they were not going to hear anything useful about means to health, wea

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