Philosophy of Inquiry and Global Problems

Nicholas Maxwell is Emeritus Reader at University College London. He has devoted much of his working life to arguing we need to bring about a revolution in academia so that it comes to seek and promote wisdom and does not just acquire and apply knowledge. He has published fifteen books on this theme.

• 1. Bad Philosophy, the Climate Crisis, and other Global Problems.- 2. Bad Academic Philosophy Responsible for Global Problems.- 3. The Post-Cartesian Blunder, and The Failure to Develop Philosophy as Critical Fundamentalism.- 4. The Post-Newtonian Blunder, and The Failure to Develop Aim-Oriented Empiricism.- 5. The Post-Enlightenment Blunder, and the Failure to Develop Academic Inquiry so as to Become Rationally Devoted to Helping Humanity Create a Civilized World.- 6. What We Need to Do.- 7. Appendix 1 How to Solve Hume’s Problem of Induction.- 8. Appendix 2 How Aim-Oriented Empiricism Would Benefit Science.