A 25 minute program in which several famous philosophers answer this fundamental question. From the excellent podcast "Philosophy Bites"
My take:
1. Philosophy is a systematic rational attempt at answering the questions that are left over once you have collected all possible factual information relevant to questions of science or practice.
2. Thinking really hard (using the aforementioned rationality) about the most basic conceptual features or the 'skeleton' of our experienced world.
3. Exploring the basic presuppositions and assumptions with which we interpret the world.
4. Studied and self-consciously reflective ignorance.
Now, this is all fine and dandy, but the best definition was clearly given by Bea Arthur:
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