1st Edition

Field Philosophy Different Places, Different Cultures

Edited By Robert Frodeman, Adam Briggle Copyright 2025
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

Philosophical issues often lie at the heart of societal problems, yet it is rare for philosophers to be actively engaged in the search for solutions. Conventionally, philosophy prioritizes the written word and the seminar room while living at a remove from everyday life. In contrast, field philosophy, the approach invoked by the chapters in this book, emphasizes the immediacy of the spoken word... Read more

Introduction: A Philosophy for the 21st Century
Robert Frodeman and Adam Briggle

 

1. What Trans Philosophy Can Teach Field Philosophy

Adam Briggle

 

2. Field Philosophy in the Light of its Ancestors

Steve Fuller

 

3. Field Philosophy: Practice and Theory

Robert Frodeman

 

4. Philosophy of Gongcheng (Engineering): A Chinese Field Philosophy Case Study

Yin Wenjuan

 

5. Field Philosophy and the Chinese National Park System

Fan Yangcheng

 

6. The Gene Edited Babies Controversy in China: Field Philosophical Questioning

Yan Ping and Carl Mitcham

 

7. Field Philosophy and Social Justice

Evelyn Brister

 

8. Field Philosophy and its Institutions in the East and West

Lu Wenlong

 

9. Chinese Philosophy as a Kind of Field Philosophy

Wei Zhang

 

10. Limits to Collaboration: Field Philosophy and Working Lands in the West

Jared Talley

Biography

Adam Briggle is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas. He is the author of six books, including Thinking through Climate Change: A Philosophy of Energy in the Anthropocene (2021) and A Field Guide to Climate Change: Understanding the Problems (2024).

Robert Frodeman writes on environmental philosophy and public policy, the philosophy of technology, and the future of the university. He is the author and/or editor of 16 books, including Sustainable Knowledge (2013) and Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science (2019), and has lectured at universities worldwide.