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Learning & Teaching

A Practical Role for Philosophy

Peter Bowden argues that it is not a choice between education or training: both are needed, and across every discipline. The problem is that the sciences are providing education as well as training, but that the departments of philosophy are not providing the training.

Mary Midgley’s philosophy department at the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne closed down. Peter Rickman’s department at City University in London has closed. Philosophy Now tells us that once again philosophy departments across Britain are closing or under threat. And yet Peter Rickman in his article in Issue 47 argues that philosophy is a necessary part of education in the technical and social sciences.

It is.

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