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Must Philosophers Disagree?

Introducing a new series on great thinkers of the present as featured in the Library of Living Philosophers.

‘Must Philosophers Disagree?’ is the title of an essay in which F.C.S. Schiller blamed “the curious etiquette which apparently taboos the asking of questions about a philosopher’s meaning while he is alive” for impeding a productive interchange of ideas between great thinkers. The “indeterminable controversies which fill the histories of philosophy”, thus Schiller, “could have been ended at once by asking the living philosophers a few searching questions.

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