What's the Use of Philosophy?

by Philip Kitcher

What's the use of philosophy? Philip Kitcher here grapples with an essential philosophical question: what the point of philosophy is, and what it should and can be.

Kitcher's portrait of the discipline is not a familiar defense of the importance of philosophy or the humanities writ large. Rather, he is deeply critical of philosophy as it is practiced today, a practice focused on narrow technical questions that are far removed from the concerns...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197657249
• ISBN13: 9780197657249
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 7.0"