Philosophy of Popular Philosophy Miniseries
TagNonfiction and Narrative Popular Philosophy (guest post by Barry Lam)
“The design features that make for good academic philosophy might make for terrible public philosophy…” (more…)
Public Philosophy and the News (guest post by Alexis Papazoglou)
Philosophy still can, and should, be done in the service of helping others make sense of our contemporary shadows on the wall: the never-ending news cycle. (more…)
Philosophy, Employment, and the Public Good (guest post by Alison Assiter)
“Educating students in philosophy and the humanities is a public good. We need people who think analytically and imaginatively and in unusual ways.” (more…)
The Margins of Philosophy (guest post by Peter Adamson)
“We need to understand the ‘minor figures’ to understand the ‘major figures’ adequately. But that’s not the only reason to be interested in minor figures, or to bring them to the attention of a wider audience. There is also the fact that apparently minor figures are sometimes major figures.” (more…)
Public Philosophy and the Civic Duty of Universities (guest post by Angie Hobbs)
“Like Plato’s Academy, the majority of modern universities should be civic institutions that engage with, learn from, and enhance the well-being of their local communities…. Each philosophy department should contain at least one member engaged in public interaction.” (more…)
Popular Philosophy and Populist Philosophy (guest post by Timothy Williamson)
“Philosophy is even harder than it seems; the right response to its difficulty is not to trash all the work already done by thousands of highly gifted and knowledgeable men and women.”
The Philosophy of Popular Philosophy: A Miniseries (guest post by Aaron Wendland)
The following is the first installment of a miniseries on “The Philosophy of Popular Philosophy.” The series is being guest-edited by Aaron James Wendland, assistant professor of philosophy at National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia, and philosophy editor at The New Statesman. In the following post, he discusses the relationship bet..