Imagining and Designing a Praxis-Project

A teacher I admire once said, “Nothing happens before being imagined first.”

Public Philosophy involves a great deal of imagination. One must imagine what change they want to see in the world. They must backwards engineer the steps it might take to get to that change, thinking about whole systems of people, knowledge and values. They have to imagine the roles of philosophers in those processes of change, when models of philosophical praxis might not exist yet. They have to imagine what jobs might make sense for them to take up, and how to perform them as philosophers. This module will help guide you through how to use imagination as a resource, especially when working with other partners.