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To those raised on Marcel's Homo Viator and Heidegger's das Nichtige, this may seem a modest role for philosophy.
However, modesty and triviality are different qualities.
Philosophy conceived of as servant to the sciences might appear as less dramatic than philosophy which jeers as the sciences evolve.
The ceaseless effort to understand and measure the distance mankind has traversed since its primitive anthropological status offers a more durable sort of drama.
By clarifying fundamental premises in the social sciences, and defining the logical problems emergent at the borderlands of each new scientific discipline, philosophy can offer the sort of distinction that can accelerate growth in human understanding.
Philosophy can prevent the working scientist from becoming slothful and self-content by noting the assumptions and level at which a hypothesis or theory is framed.
The dissection of scientific theory, the examination of a theory from the vantage-points of language, epistemology, and ethics, is itself a distinct contribution to knowledge, no less so because of its removal from empirical research.

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