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Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy

Special Issue: Special Issue: The 25th Anniversary of Social Epistemology

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Philosophy in the Age of Neoliberalism

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DOI:: 10.1080/02691728.2012.722701

Robert Frodeman^*, Adam Briggle & J. Britt Holbrook

pages 311-330

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Published online: 30 Oct 2012

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Abstract

This essay argues that political, economic, and cultural developments have made the twentieth century disciplinary approach to philosophy unsustainable. It (a) discusses the reasons behind this unsustainability, which also affect the academy at large, (b) describes applied philosophy as an inadequate theoretical reaction to contemporary societal pressures, and (c) proposes a dedisciplined and interstitial approach—“field philosophy”—as a better response to the challenges facing the twenty-first century philosophy.

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Published online: 30 Oct 2012

Author biographies

Robert Frodeman is the Director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity and a Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas.

Adam Briggle as Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas.

J. Britt Holbrook is Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies and Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity at the University of North Texas.