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While Curley argues that we need to know the history of philosophy so as not to avoid important alternatives to contemporary proposals, I argue that philosophy is an essentially historical enterprise. Unlike science, philosophy cannot forget its history. Not to know the history of philosophy is not to understand why the questions we seek to answer are worth answering or asking.
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Cohen, L. Doing philosophy is doing its history. Synthese 67, 51–55 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485509
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