Practicing Relevance: The Origins, Practices, and Future of Applied Philosophy
Description:
This dissertation takes up the question of the social function of philosophy. Popular accounts of the nature and value of philosophy reinforce long-standing perceptions that philosophy is useless or irrelevant to pressing societal problems. Yet, the increasingly neoliberal political-economic environment of higher education places a premium on mechanisms that link public funding for research to demonstrations of return on investment in the form of benefitting broader society. This institutional …
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Date:
May 2017
Creator:
Barr, Kelli Ray
Partner:
UNT Libraries