So this is my attempt to give a preliminary - probably far too crude - account of how philosophy by showing can really teach us. The attempts we make to work through problems by reasoning always presuppose starting points, and even the most self-critical philosophers adopt some of those starting points simply by picking them up from the social environments in which they grow up.
Philip KitcherThe point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation.
Philip KitcherThe result can be quite new - perhaps a tendency to judge that something we've never conceived of is possible, or to feel sympathy for a trait or a type of person whom we've regarded with indifference or even hostility.
Philip KitcherIn ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.
Philip Kitcher