Socrates Tenured: The Institutions of 21st-Century Philosophy - Paperback

by Robert Frodeman (Author), Adam Briggle (Author)

This book diagnoses a crisis facing philosophy - and the humanities more broadly - and sketches a path toward institutionalizing socially engaged approaches to philosophical research.

Author Biography

Robert Frodeman is Professor of Philosophy and founding Director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity at the University of North Texas. His publications include Sustainable Knowledge: A Theory of Interdisciplinarity (2014) and The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity (editor in chief; 2nd edition 2016).

Adam Briggle is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. He is the author of A Rich Bioethics (2010), co-author of Ethics and Science: An Introduction (2012), and author of A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking (2015).