Jobs for Philosophers

About the Book

“Scan this book quickly and you will think that philosophy has finally recovered a sense of imagination. Read it carefully – and recognize that every work and every author ‘reviewed’ here are but mere possibilities (except for one) – and you find yourself in the midst of an extraordinarily imaginative and audacious projection of what philosophy might become. ‘Reinventing the culture’ in the new Millennium; reinvoking the ‘hidden possibilities’ of human and more-than-human Others; reopening ethics in the direction of ‘possibilistic’ process; even ‘teaching on the edge’... Oh for such a Philosophy! Oh for such Philosophers!” – Violet Woodsorrel Oxalis

About the Author

Anthony Weston teaches philosophy and environmental studies at Elon University. He has published six other books and over fifty articles in areas ranging from environmental philosophy and philosophy of education to ethics and critical thinking, including the best-selling Rulebook for Arguments (Hackett Publishing Company) and A Practical Companion to Ethics (Oxford University Press). “Anthony Weston’s latest book is a manifesto-in-disguise for ‘Possibilism’, a style of philosophy that ‘doesn’t exist (yet) but should.’ A vital conceptual toolbox for the 21st Century.” – The Polycentrist “Vertiginous, enigmatic, catholic, even fun. And in the author’s favorite phrase, Why Not?” – J. X. O. Wu