Applied philosophy has been a growing area of research for the last 40 years. Until now, however, almost all of this research has been centered around the field of ethics. A Companion to Applied Philosophy breaks new ground, demonstrating that all areasof philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, can be applied, and are relevant to questions of everyday life. This perennial topic in philosophy provides an overview of these various applied philosophy developments, highlighting similarities and differences between various areas of applied…mehr
Applied philosophy has been a growing area of research for the last 40 years. Until now, however, almost all of this research has been centered around the field of ethics. A Companion to Applied Philosophy breaks new ground, demonstrating that all areasof philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, can be applied, and are relevant to questions of everyday life. This perennial topic in philosophy provides an overview of these various applied philosophy developments, highlighting similarities and differences between various areas of applied philosophy, and examining the very nature of this topic. It is an area to which many of the towering figures in the history of philosophy have contributed, and this timely Companion demonstrates how various historical contributions are actually contributions within applied philosophy, even if they are not traditionally seen as such.
The Companion contains 42 essays covering major areas of philosophy; the articles themselves are all original contributions to the literature and represent the state of the art on this topic, as well as offering a map to the current debates.
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Aarhus and Professor II in Philosophy at the University of Tromsø. Recent publications include Born Free and Equal? (2013) and Luck Egalitarianism (2015). He is an associate editor of Ethics and was Chair of the Society for Applied Philosophy from 2012 to 2014. David Coady is a senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has published on many topics in applied epistemology, including expertise, conspiracy theory, rumor, and the blogosphere. He is the editor of Conspiracy Theories: The Philosophical Debate (2006), the author of What To Believe Now: Applying Epistemology to Contemporary Issues (2012), and the co -author of The Climate Change Debate: An Epistemic and Ethical Enquiry (2013). He has also published on metaphysics, philosophyof law, police ethics, the ethics of horror films, and the ethics of cricket. Kimberley Brownlee is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on the ethics of sociability, social rights, social virtues, and freedom of association. She is the author of Conscience and Conviction: The Case for Civil Disobedience (2012) and co-editor of Disability and Disadvantage (2009).
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Notes on Contributors ix
Foreword xvi
Acknowledgments xix
Part I Introductory Articles 1
1 The Nature of Applied Philosophy 3 Kasper Lippert?]Rasmussen
2 The Methodology of Applied Philosophy 18 David Archard
3 The Value of Applied Philosophy 34 Suzanne Uniacke
Part II Epistemology 49
4 Applied Epistemology 51 David Coady
5 Gender and Feminist Epistemology 61 Nancy Daukas
6 The Epistemology of Deliberative Democracy 76 Fabienne Peter
7 Information Markets 89 Kristoffer Ahlstrom?]Vij
8 Epistemology for (Real) People 103 Michael Bishop and J.D. Trout
9 Are Conspiracy Theorists Epistemically Vicious? 120 Charles R. Pigden
10 Experts in the Climate Change Debate 133 Ben Almassi
11 Freedom of Expression, Diversity, and Truth 147 Klemens Kappel, Bjørn Hallsson, and Emil F.L. Møller
Part III Metaphysics and Philosophy of Language 163
12 Applied Metaphysics 165 Katherine Hawley
13 Applied Philosophy of Language 180 Emma Borg
14 Social Ontology and War 196 Seumas Miller
15 The Metaphysics of Gender 211 Natalie Stoljar
16 The Existence of the Dead 224 Steven Luper
17 Freedom of Expression and Derogatory Words 236 Caroline West
Part IV Ethics 253
18 Applied Moral Philosophy 255 Richard Arneson
19 Neuroethics and Responsibility 270 Neil Levy
20 Non?]ideal Theory 284 Zofia Stemplowska
21 Death: Badness and Prudential Reasons 297 Jens Johansson
Part V Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law 311
22 Applied Political and Legal Philosophy 313 Michelle Madden Dempsey and Matthew Lister
23 Legal Human Rights Theory 328 Samantha Besson
24 Collectivism and Reductivism in the Ethics of War 342 Helen Frowe
25 Freedom of Association 356 Kimberley Brownlee
26 Neuroethics and Criminal Justice 370 Jesper Ryberg and Thomas Søbirk Petersen
27 Deliberative Democracy 383 Thomas Christiano and Sameer Bajaj
28 Tax Ethics: Political and Individual 397 Geoffrey Brennan and George Tsai
29 Benefiting from Wrongdoing 411 Avia Pasternak
30 Freedom of Religion and Expression 424 Larry Alexander
Part VI Philosophy of Science 439
31 Applied Philosophy of Social Science: The Case of the Social Construction of Race 441 Isaac Wiegman and Ron Mallon
32 Social Constructivism in Social Science and Science Wars 455 Finn Collin
33 Did Climate Change Cause That? 469 Richard Corry
Part VII Aesthetics 485
34 Applied Aesthetics 487 David Davies
35 Thought Experiments in Aesthetics 501 Paisley Livingston and Mikael Pettersson
36 Aesthetic Value, Artistic Value, and Morality 514 Andrea Sauchelli
37 The Applied Philosophy of Humor 527 Noël Carroll
Part VIII Philosophy of Religion 539
38 Applied Philosophy of Religion 541 C.A.J. Coady
39 Thinking about Reported Miracles 555 Timothy Mcgrew
40 Religion and Neuroscience 567 Monima Chadha
Part IX History of Applied Philosophy 583
41 Ancient Applied Philosophy 585 Chris Megone
42 Modern Applied Philosophy: Kant on Theory and Practice 599 Allen Wood
