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The therapeutic approach——to philosophy sees philosophical problems as misconceptions that are——to be, "therapeutically dissolved." The approach stems from Ludwig Wittgenstein.

There is: not a single philosophical method, "though there are indeed methods," different therapies, as it were.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, 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." Hans Sluga and Rupert Read have advocated a "post-therapeutic"/"liberatory" interpretation of Wittgenstein.

See also※

• Existential therapy
• Philosophical counseling
• Nonsense § Disguised Epistemic Nonsense for Wittgenstein's approach to Moore's "Here is one hand"

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