{"product_id":"the-pursuit-of-philosophy-isbn-9781118295182","title":"The Pursuit of Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEleven Cambridge academics approach philosophy from various fields, to broaden its practical and theoretical applications.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eGuides a tour through various academic departments—including history, political science, classics, law, and English—to ferret out the philosophy in their syllabi, and to show philosophy's symbiotic relationship with other fields\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a map of what philosophy is considered to be at Cambridge in the early twenty-first century, about a hundred years after the \"founding fathers\" of analytic philosophy reigned at Cambridge\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers useful new directions for the study and application of philosophy, and how other fields can influence them\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Philosophy, Its Pitfalls, Some Rescue Plans, and Their Complications\u003cbr\u003eALEXIS PAPAZOGLOU 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Philosophy, Logic, Science, History\u003cbr\u003eTIM CRANE 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Philosophy and Its Pitfalls\u003cbr\u003eJANE HEAL 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 A Surfeit of Naturalism\u003cbr\u003eTIM LEWENS 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 What Is Realistic Political Philosophy?\u003cbr\u003eDAVID RUNCIMAN 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Bedlam or Parnassus: The Verse Idea\u003cbr\u003eSIMON JARVIS 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Philosophy, Early Modern Intellectual History, and the History of Philosophy\u003cbr\u003eMICHAEL EDWARDS 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Goals, Origins, Disciplines\u003cbr\u003eRAYMOND GEUSS 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Falling In and Out of Love with Philosophy\u003cbr\u003eJOHN FORRESTER 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Forms of Reflection, Imagination, and the Love of Wisdom\u003cbr\u003eDOUGLAS HEDLEY 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 What Is Legal Philosophy?\u003cbr\u003eMATTHEW H. KRAMER 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Cambridge Revolt Against Idealism: Was There Ever an Eden?\u003cbr\u003eFRASER MACBRIDE 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlexis Papazoglou\u003c\/b\u003e studied physics at Imperial College London and philosophy at the University of Cambridge and University College London. He is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the University of Cambridge and has been a visiting graduate student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. His doctoral thesis explores the relationship between reason and nature in Hegel’s philosophy, against the background of John McDowell’s \u003ci\u003eMind and World\u003c\/i\u003e and naturalism.  In this enlightening look into what constitutes philosophy, eleven Cambridge academics approach the question “What is philosophy?” from a variety of vantage points. In individual essays, scholars address the role that the history of philosophy, the natural sciences, politics, and verse poetry have played—and can play—in philosophy, as well as the relationship of philosophy to disciplines such as theology and law. They examine how institutional structures can affect the way philosophy is practised, and ponder to what extent philosophy has succumbed to the pitfalls of dogmatism, or become an irrelevant rhetorical game. Can more interaction with other disciplines help to avoid isolation and scholasticism? Or is philosophy at risk of losing its identity when it comes into close contact with other disciplines?  \u003cp\u003eWhile fielding these inquiries and others to reinvigorate philosophic thinking, \u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately argues that the unexamined philosophy is not worth doing, and shows why. The book will set the stage for a fruitful interdiscipinarity of reading, study, and debate among various fields in order to enrich that of philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990324920549,"sku":"NP9781118295182","price":36.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118295182.jpg?v=1761787361","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-pursuit-of-philosophy-isbn-9781118295182","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}