December 17, 2007
A Glance at the November/December Issue of Philosophy Now: Teaching Plato With Bono
"Philosophy is not popular culture—not an artifact or subject of mass interest and appreciation: but it could be," writes William Irwin, an associate professor of philosophy at King's College, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Most people are not interested in philosophy, says Mr. Irwin, because it deals too heavily in abstractions. "Of course, so do physics and mathematics," he writes, "... but people more readily see the payoff for studying math or physics, with their clear
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