Description:
This volume draws together lessons learned from applied philosophy, including coverage of philosophers contributing to scientific research projects, consultations on matters of policy, and expertise provided to government agencies and non-profits.
Review Quotes:
"Field philosophy' promises - and delivers - nothing less than philosophy's return to its pre-academic roots as reflective being in the world. What is most striking about the philosophers assembled in this volume is that they would probably be in violent disagreement over many purely technical philosophical issues, yet they are all capable of turning their philosophical skills to the greater common good."
--Steve Fuller, University of Warwick
"At least since the 1980s efforts have been made in various quarters of the English-speaking philosophical community to break free from the Western model of academic specialization and detachment. This volume adds new dimensions to the project, going deeper in conceptualization (the theory of field philosophy), broader in reach (from science and engineering to design, fracking, addiction, and human trafficking), and more expansive in participants (33 from North and South America and Europe)."
--Carl Mitcham, Renmin University of China