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The Philosophy of Inquiry and Global Problems (Record no. 57371)

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International Standard Book Number 9783031494918
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Personal name Maxwell, Nicholas.
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Title The Philosophy of Inquiry and Global Problems
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Remainder of title The Intellectual Revolution Needed to Create a Better World /
Statement of responsibility, etc. by Nicholas Maxwell.
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Edition statement 1st ed. 2024.
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Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Springer Nature Switzerland :
-- Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2024.
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Extent XIX, 313 p. 5 illus.
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Formatted contents note 1. Bad Philosophy, the Climate Crisis, and other Global Problems -- 2. Bad Academic Philosophy Responsible for Global Problems -- 3. The Post-Cartesian Blunder, and The Failure to Develop Philosophy as Critical Fundamentalism -- 4. The Post-Newtonian Blunder, and The Failure to Develop Aim-Oriented Empiricism -- 5. The Post-Enlightenment Blunder, and the Failure to Develop Academic Inquiry so as to Become Rationally Devoted to Helping Humanity Create a Civilized World -- 6. What We Need to Do -- 7. Appendix 1 How to Solve Hume’s Problem of Induction -- 8. Appendix 2 How Aim-Oriented Empiricism Would Benefit Science.
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Summary, etc. Universities have long been dominated by a philosophy of inquiry that may be called knowledge-inquiry. This holds that, in order to do justice to the basic humanitarian aim of helping to promote human welfare, academic inquiry must, in the first instance, seek knowledge and technological know-how. First, knowledge is to be acquired; once acquired, it can be applied to help promote human welfare. But this philosophy of knowledge-inquiry is an intellectual and humanitarian disaster. It violates three of the four most elementary rules of rational problem solving conceivable, and as a result fails to give priority to the task of helping humanity resolve those conflicts and problems of living, such as the climate and nature crises, that need to be resolved if we are to make progress to a better world – a world in which there is peace, democracy, justice, liberty, and sustainable prosperity, for all. Very few academics today are aware of this rationalityscandal. We urgently need to bring about a revolution in universities around the world, wherever possible, so that academic inquiry puts all four rules of rational problem solving into practice, and becomes rationally devoted to helping humanity learn how to make progress towards a better world. Knowledge-inquiry needs to become wisdom-inquiry, rationally devoted to helping humanity create a wiser world. Nicholas Maxwell is Emeritus Reader at University College London. He has devoted much of his working life to arguing we need to bring about a revolution in academia so that it comes to seek and promote wisdom and does not just acquire and apply knowledge. He has published fifteen books on this theme.
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Title Springer Nature eBook
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International Standard Book Number 9783031494901
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International Standard Book Number 9783031494925
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International Standard Book Number 9783031494932
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49491-8">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49491-8</a>
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