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What Philosophy Can Do

✍ Scribed by Gary Gutting

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Category
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"A brilliant demonstration of what philosophy can do and how it is essential to human integrity and identity."β€”Simon Critchley, coeditor of The Stone Reader

How can we have meaningful debates with political opponents? How can we distinguish reliable science from over-hyped media reports? How can we talk sensibly about God?

In What Philosophy Can Do, Gary Gutting takes a philosopher's scalpel to modern life's biggest questions and the most powerful forces in our societyβ€”politics, science, religion, education, and capitalismβ€”to show how we can improve our discussions of contentious contemporary issues.

Gutting introduces readers to powerful analytic tools in the philosopher's arsenal that they can use to make new sense of current debates. One such tool is a crucial distinction between inductive and deductive reasoning that explains why both sides on a disputed issue often are sure they have compelling cases for their views. Another...

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