PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY

INITIATIVE

The Public Philosophy Initiative (PPI) is a project that provides resources to graduate students interested in building careers in public philosophy— where their philosophical inquiry can support real-world problem-solving.

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“we need to work towards a disciplinary culture that...becomes a site of creativity for ever-expanding ways of doing professional philosophy...A culture of praxis...has at least the two following components:
(1) Value placed on seeking issues and circumstances pertinent to our living... and
(2) Recognition and encouragement of multiple canons...””

-Kristie Dotson, “How is this Paper Philosophy?”


Upcoming Fall Events

Gregory Fried, Faculty Advisor, PPI

“PPI contributes to enlarging what philosophy studies, how philosophy engages the wider world beyond the academy, and who "does" philosophy and in what context.”

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