Papazoglou, Alexis

The Pursuit of Philosophy: Some Cambridge Perspectives

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Eleven Cambridge academics approach philosophy from various fields, to broaden its practical and theoretical applications.

Guides a tour through various academic departments—including history, political science, classics, law, and English—to ferret out the philosophy in their syllabi, and to show philosophy’s symbiotic relationship with other fields
Provides a map of what philosophy is considered to be at Cambridge in the early twenty-first century, about a hundred years after the “founding fathers” of analytic philosophy reigned at Cambridge
Offers useful new directions for the study and application of philosophy, and how other fields can influence them

Keywords: Metaphilosophy; practical and theoretical applications; history, political science, classics, law, and English; philosophy’s symbiotic relationship; the “founding fathers” of analytic philosophy; application of philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind