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What Use Is Philosophy? By J. B. S. Haldane G. Alexandrov and four colleagues have just been awarded a Stalin prize of 200,000 roubles for a three-volume book on the history of philosophy. Most of the other prizes went to scientists. Many people will be inclined to say, Why rank with scientists men who have merely described the opinions, mostly false, held by a number of people in the past? No doubt this has some interest, like a history of fairy tales or astrology, but it isnt much use, particularly at the present grim moment. There are a great many reasons for studying what philosophers ha