Three Models of Philosophy: Bureaucracy, Catalysis and Poetry Photo by Trust "Tru" Katsande on Unsplash Much philosophy today is the bureaucracy of the mind; checking to see if scholars and laypeople are following the rules of reason, punishing them when they trespass the boundaries, cleaning up academic disciplines and making sure their concepts are well defined and deployed with the rigor appropriate to the discipline. Philosophy performs a policing function, regulating how concepts should be 'correctly' deployed in the sciences and the humanities.
Political Thought(s)
Political Thought(s)
Political Thought(s)
Three Models of Philosophy: Bureaucracy, Catalysis and Poetry Photo by Trust "Tru" Katsande on Unsplash Much philosophy today is the bureaucracy of the mind; checking to see if scholars and laypeople are following the rules of reason, punishing them when they trespass the boundaries, cleaning up academic disciplines and making sure their concepts are well defined and deployed with the rigor appropriate to the discipline. Philosophy performs a policing function, regulating how concepts should be 'correctly' deployed in the sciences and the humanities.