Manifesto for public philosophy

Abstract

Producing an engaged and public oriented philosophy is a difficult task as there are personal and academic barriers to overcome. Philosophers generally do not receive sufficient institutional incentives to go beyond research and lectures aimed at their academic peers, and this has created a split between the qualified academic world and the non-academic world, where there is a vacuum of philosophical intellectual influence being filled by untrained people. It is not a matter of forcing the academy to effectively produce a more popular and appealing philosophy for the masses, but of making it more charitable and responsive to initiatives that are in that direction, including professionalizing them. The following translated text from philosopher C. Thi Nguyen proposes some practical suggestions that may lead to the construction of a more attractive and institutionally valuable public philosophy. With this more attentive look when doing philosophical work, it is believed that overcoming many barriers to entry for new philosophers will be facilitated, and philosophy will gain new public relevance.