Philosophy of Inquiry and Global Problems

The Intellectual Revolution Needed to Create a Better World

AvNicholas Maxwell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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We urgently need to bring about a revolution in universities around the world, wherever possible, so that academic inquiry puts all four rules of rational problem solving into practice, and becomes rationally devoted to helping humanity learn how to make progress towards a better world.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-01-31
Mått:148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:548 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:313
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031494901

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Nicholas Maxwell is Emeritus Reader at University College London. He has devoted much of his working life to arguing we need to bring about a revolution in academia so that it comes to seek and promote wisdom and does not just acquire and apply knowledge. He has published fifteen books on this theme.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Bad Philosophy, the Climate Crisis, and other Global Problems.- 2. Bad Academic Philosophy Responsible for Global Problems.- 3. The Post-Cartesian Blunder, and The Failure to Develop Philosophy as Critical Fundamentalism.- 4. The Post-Newtonian Blunder, and The Failure to Develop Aim-Oriented Empiricism.- 5. The Post-Enlightenment Blunder, and the Failure to Develop Academic Inquiry so as to Become Rationally Devoted to Helping Humanity Create a Civilized World.- 6. What We Need to Do.- 7. Appendix 1 How to Solve Hume’s Problem of Induction.- 8. Appendix 2 How Aim-Oriented Empiricism Would Benefit Science.