TY  - BOOK
AU  - Askonas,Jon
AU  - Babich,Babette
AU  - Bortolotti,Lisa
AU  - Bubbio,Paolo Diego
AU  - Frodeman,Robert
AU  - Graham,Jacob
AU  - Macarthur,David
AU  - Malpas,Jeff
AU  - Puddifoot,Katherine
AU  - Redding,Paul
AU  - Stokes,Patrick
AU  - Withy,Katherine
TI  - Why Philosophy?
SN  - 9783110649178
AV  - B72 .W52 2019
U1  - 200.1 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Denken
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Vernunft
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - reason
KW  - thought
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: Why Philosophy? --; I. What Is Philosophy? --; Doing Philosophy --; The House Always Wins: Why Philosophy Isn’t Optional --; Why We Need Philosophy – and Philosophers --; Irreverent Thoughts on the Relevance of Philosophy --; II. What can Philosophy Contribute? --; Philosophy, Bias, and Stigma --; Thinking Failure in the War in Iraq: The Cultural Turn and the Concept of “World” --; The Role of Philosophy in “Post-Truth” Times --; III. What can Philosophy do? --; A Robot Took My Boyfriend and My Job: Positioning Philosophy for a Resurgence --; Good for Nothing: On Philosophy and its Discontents --; On Thinking in a Thoughtless Time --; Contributors --; Index of Names --; Index of Subjects; restricted access
N2  - Do we really need philosophy? The present collection of jargon-free essays aims at answering the question of why philosophy matters. Each essay considers the central question (Why Philosophy?) from different angles: the unavoidability of doing philosophy, the practical consequences of philosophy, philosophy as a therapy for the whole person, the benefits of philosophy for improving public policy, etc
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650990
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