Since the millennium, there has been a huge increase in the visibility of philosophy, both online and off. There are, of course, books on philosophy, but also numerous popular live events, courses, podcasts, television and radio programmes, and newspaper columns. Philosophy today is as likely to be found on YouTube as it is in a bookshop or library. Just to mention a few examples of freely accessible online public philosophy initiatives: Michael Sandel's 'Justice' course, the BBC's History of Ideas animations, or the many popular philosophy podcasts, including History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps from Peter Adamson, Philosophy Bites from David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton, and the philosophy episodes of the BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time. This complex and heterogeneous phenomenon is generally called 'public philosophy'. It's philosophy done in public rather than behind the doors of seminar or lecture rooms, or in paywalled academic journals... (continues)
https://psyche.co/ideas/what-public-philosophy-is-and-why-we-need-it-more-than-ever
https://psyche.co/ideas/what-public-philosophy-is-and-why-we-need-it-more-than-ever
Although the text says that it's not a universal belief; I concur with the metaphilosophical assumption; as it relates to the justification for public philosophy; "the belief that thinking philosophically or rationally has a value in itself."
ReplyDelete