Field Philosophy

Auteur

Adam Briggle is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. He is the author of six books, including Thinking through Climate Change: A Philosophy of Energy in the Anthropocene (2021) and A Field Guide to Climate Change: Understanding the Problems (2024).

Robert Frodeman writes on environmental philosophy and public policy, the philosophy of technology, and the future of the university. He is the author and/or editor of 16 books, including Sustainable Knowledge (2013) and Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science (2019), and has lectured at universities worldwide.

Texte du rabat

Field philosophy, the approach invoked by the chapters in this book, emphasizes the immediacy of the spoken word and engages people in their daily activities to help them understand the philosophical elements of their everyday tasks.

Contenu

Introduction: A Philosophy for the 21st Century 1. What Trans Philosophy Can Teach Field Philosophy 2. Field Philosophy in the Light of its Ancestors 3. Field Philosophy: Practice and Theory 4. Philosophy of Gongcheng (Engineering): A Chinese Field Philosophy Case Study 5. Field Philosophy and the Chinese National Park System 6. The Gene Edited Babies Controversy in China: Field Philosophical Questioning 7. Field Philosophy and Social Justice 8. Field Philosophy and its Institutions in the East and West 9. Chinese Philosophy as a Kind of Field Philosophy 10. Limits to Collaboration: Field Philosophy and Working Lands in the West