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Philosophy is an awkward discipline, set among departments of humanities like some kangaroo among the cattle, like some odd and ugly double-headed duckling. The awkwardness does not result entirely from social contrivance; it is a real and essential consequence of how well the philosophical tradition has met the demands that philosophical questions impose.
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Glymour, C. (1990). Philosophy and the Academy. In: Sieg, W. (eds) Acting and Reflecting. Synthese Library, vol 211. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2476-5_5
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