Do You Believe Your Philosophical Views?

For me philosophical work is like musical composition, the idea I'm drawn to. A philosophical text whether it's an article or an essay, or a book is a kind of score that we compose and we compose it so that we can play ourselves,. But we also offer it to others for them to play, and they learned about our philosophy not by checking the bottom lines of the chapter headings but by using it in their own thinking. So, hey, asking asking a philosopher whether whether he believes his views is a little bit like asking whether a composer believes his views or her views or their views. It's not really the right, the right question to ask. Instead of asking, do