The public relevance of philosophy.
Various authors have recently expressed doubts about the public relevance of philosophy. These doubts target both academic philosophy in general and particular subfields of philosophy. This paper investigates whether these doubts are justified through two tests in which the lack of public relevance...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 200; no. 1; pp. 1 - 29 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2022
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