By way of illustration, here is a description of work within a philosophical
tradition that I would probably not point to if you asked me to provide an exemplar of (technical) philosophy – not so much because I do not consider it philosophy (its concern with language and concepts, with critique of assumptions, and
so on, seem to me to clearly place it within the domain of philosophy), but
because it is a tradition I am not at home in, and because the way in which these
concerns are pursued strikes me as sometimes being problematic: