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He wasn't a philosopher at all.
Was he a philosopher at all?
Today, his impatience with the imaginary games philosophers play — "chmess" instead of chess, he calls it — and his preference for the company of scientists lead some to question if he's still a philosopher at all.
If his philosophy could be boiled down to two mottoes, says Sarah Bakewell, they "would surely be 'anything for a quiet life' and 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it.'" He is the most disarming of philosophers, the least didactic – to the point that many people wouldn't consider him a philosopher at all.
Yet in other ways Voltaire was not a philosopher at all in the modern sense of the term.
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I am a philosopher at Loyola University at Chicago.
Elisabeth A. Lloyd, a philosopher at Indiana University, isn't buying it.
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Ian Hacking, a philosopher at the University of Toronto, would like to lower the heat.
I think he's really a philosopher at heart, who helped launch a revolution".
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