Summary
The interview entitled ‚Why study philosophy? To challenge your own point of view‘ was published in the online edition of the American magazine, The Atlantic on the 27th of February, 2014. The interviewee, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, who is a philosopher and the author of several books, expresses her thoughts on the science vs. philosophy discussions, on philosophy’s advances and on its importance to our lives today. She also underscores the fact that despite what scientists believe, philosophy is not yet antiquated.
In the first part of the in the first part of the interview, she reminisces about her first experience of an ‘intellectual ecstasy’ when she came The Story of Philosophy at the age of 11. Because of this book, which she
The interview entitled ‚Why study philosophy? To challenge your own point of view‘ was published in the online edition of the American magazine, The Atlantic on the 27th of February, 2014. The interviewee, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, who is a philosopher and the author of several books, expresses her thoughts on the science vs. philosophy discussions, on philosophy’s advances and on its importance to our lives today. She also underscores the fact that despite what scientists believe, philosophy is not yet antiquated.
In the first part of the in the first part of the interview, she reminisces about her first experience of an ‘intellectual ecstasy’ when she came The Story of Philosophy at the age of 11. Because of this book, which she