therapeutic approach

{{Short description|Philosophical problems as misconceptions}}

The therapeutic approach to philosophy sees philosophical problems as misconceptions that are to be therapeutically dissolved. The approach stems from Ludwig Wittgenstein.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/ |first1=Anat |last1=Biletzki |first2=Anat |last2=Matar |title=Ludwig Wittgenstein |encyclopedia=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |editor-first=Edward N. |editor-last=Zalta |access-date=2014-04-07}}{{cite web |url=http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/was-wittgenstein-right/ |first=Paul |last=Horwich |title=Was Wittgenstein Right? |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2013-03-03}}

{{quotation|text=There is not a single philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, different therapies, as it were.|author=Ludwig Wittgenstein|source=Philosophical Investigations, §133d}}

Some noted philosophers who can be said to take a therapeutic approach are John McDowell, Alice Crary, and Richard Rorty. Quietists, philosophers associated with The New Wittgenstein and anti-philosophy are all pertinent to the therapeutic approach.

Hans-Johann Glock has argued against the plausibility of the therapeutic approach as accurately characterizing Wittgenstein's philosophy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/30761740|title = Therapy, Co-operation and Self-Diagnosis in Wittgenstein's Method|last1 = Dearden|first1 = Ian}} Hans Sluga and Rupert Read have advocated a "post-therapeutic" or "liberatory" interpretation of Wittgenstein.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYDCBupXaJU&t=3511s|title=WPTC #2 – Sluga: Wittgenstein as a Liberatory Thinker|website=YouTube|date=5 June 2020 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF-8IbCM0pk|title = Rupert Read and Hans Sluga on Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy|website = YouTube| date=26 April 2021 }}