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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
About the author
Wouter Kalf is University Lecturer in Practical Philosophy at Leiden University, Netherlands.
Michael Klenk is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the ERC-funded project 'Value Change' at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
Jeroen Hopster is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Utrecht University, working at the intersection of Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Netherlands.
Julia Hermann is an Assistant Professor in Ethics of Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands.
