Philosophy in the Age of Science? - Inquiries Into Philosophical Progress, Method, and Societal Relevance

This book brings together well-known philosophers to examine how philosophy can and should contribute to our understanding of today's world and the challenges that it faces and evaluates the place of philosophy in the age of science.

List of contents

Introduction, Julia Hermann, Jeroen Hopster, Wouter Kalf, Michael Klenk

Part I: Philosophical Progress

1. The Many Roads to Progress in Philosophy and Theology, Rik Peels

2. Philosophical Progress and Cumulative Cultural Evolution, Wybo Houkes And Krist Vaesen

3. Ethics in Context, Julia Hermann

4. Conceptual Engineering in Practical Philosophy, Or How Moral Sceptics Can and Should Improve the World, Wouter Kalf

Part II: Philosophical Methods

5. Thought Experiments and the (Ir-)Relevance of Intuitions in Philosophy, Daniel Cohnitz

6. The Methods of Connective Analysis in Analytic Philosophy, Peter Hacker

7. The Criterion of Simplicity in Science and Ethics, Richard Swinburne

8. Three Questions About Systematic Moral Theory, Sophie-Grace Chappell

9. Philosophy of Causation in the Age of Science, Rosa Runhardt

Part III: Societal Relevance

10. Omnivores and Synthesisers. Academic Philosophers as Interdisciplinary Specialists, Michael Klenk

11. Shall We Adapt? Evolutionary Ethics and Climate Change, Jeroen Hopster

12. The Difference of Philosophy, Rozemund Uljée

13. Should Philosophers Begin to Employ New Methods if They Want to Become More Societally Relevant? Ibo Van De Poel

Bibliography

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Edited by Julia Hermann; Jeroen Hopster; Wouter Kalf and Michael Klenk

Product details

• Authors: Julia Hopster Hermann, Wouter Floria Klenk Kalf
• Assisted by: Julia Hermann (Editor), Hermann Julia (Editor), Jeroen Hopster (Editor), Wouter Kalf (Editor), Michael Klenk (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781538142820
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4282-0
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge