I like this comic, though it cuts both ways. Lay people tend not to have a good understanding of what philosophers (of all stripes) do but, as this comic so hilariously illustrates, philosophers are also really bad at engaging people in their work and why it’s interesting.
We’re in the middle of a slow revolution of public philosophy (of which I count this blog as an instance) that is changing this.
I like this comic, though it cuts both ways. Lay people tend not to have a good understanding of what philosophers (of all stripes) do but, as this comic so hilariously illustrates, philosophers are also really bad at engaging people in their work and why it’s interesting.
We’re in the middle of a slow revolution of public philosophy (of which I count this blog as an instance) that is changing this.