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The house always wins: why philosophy isn’t optional

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posted on 2023-10-23, 23:42 authored by Patrick StokesPatrick Stokes
A prominent strand of criticism of contemporary philosophy comes from high-profile physicists and science communicators. Figures such as Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss and Neil Degrasse Tyson have claimed that philosophy is obsolete, unproductive, and an obstacle to genuine inquiry. Yet all these critiques end up falling into the same trap: they all end up trying to philosophize their way out of doing philosophy. This failure is instructive. It points to the way in which, far from being a relic of an earlier phase of intellectual inquiry we should put aside, philosophy is in fact something we cannot avoid engaging in.

History

Chapter number

2

Pagination

15-26

ISBN-13

9783110650990

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2019, Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Extent

10

Editor/Contributor(s)

Malpas J, Bubbio PD

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Place of publication

Berlin, Germany

Title of book

Why philosophy?