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No way. Here you can quote the conclusion of Weininger's biographer Chandak Sengupta.
Weininger's book is interesting mainly because it was a bestseller at the beginning of the century, because it attracted the attention of a wide variety of people, far from psychology, physiology or philosophy.�
Nikolai Berdyaev, in a long review of 1909, remarks:�
That's exactly what happened.
In philosophical circles, Weininger's book is known for being read by Wittgenstein.�
Wittgenstein's opinion was as follows:
Accordingly, philosophers do not care about Weininger in any way. It concerns historians of philosophy in connection with Wittgenstein:
The collection Wittgenstein reads Weininger, edited by David Stern, is devoted to the study of this issue.
A brief introduction to Weininger's views:
It would be surprising if there were professional philosophers willing to treat this as anything other than a hack.