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Eugen Fischer, Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy: Outline of a Philosophical Revolution, London: Routledge, 2010, xviii + 300 pp.
Boncompagni, Anna
2011
Abstract
After an introduction on the aims and structure of the volume, focused on Fischer’s distinction between philosophy as therapy and philosophical therapy, the review examines the three parts in which the text is divided, following the author’s analysis and argumentations. The first part analyses the way in which images shape the philosophical reflection, through the literal application of conceptual metaphors. In the second part it is shown how this process generates cases of philosophical delusion, materializing in insolvable, though illusory, puzzles. The third part concerns the urgency, felt by the author, of a new form of philosophical therapy based on cognitive epistemology. Eventually, the review observes that this kind of approach, although interesting, belongs to a scientific more than to a philosophical outlook, particularly with reference to the Wittgensteinian therapeutic method.
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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
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Anna Boncompagni, "Eugen Fischer, Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy: Outline of a Philosophical Revolution, London: Routledge, 2010, xviii + 300 pp.", in "APhEx 4", 2011, pp. 20
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