Wilson, James;
(2025)
The marketplace of ideas: who's buying?
In: Archard, David and Davies, Matt, (eds.)
"The point is to change it": Essays on philosophy in public life.
(pp. 67-73).
Nuffield Foundation: London, UK.
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Abstract
Much philosophical writing is in principle relevant to decision-making in the public sphere, but in practice has absolutely no effect on the day-to-day concerns of policymakers. Only a tiny percentage of philosophical writing is explicitly addressed to practical problems of a kind that policymakers need to solve, and even where it is, it is often written in a way that is too technical for those without graduate-level training in philosophy to understand. And when philosophers aim to say something helpful about live policy problems, they often misunderstand relevant contextual features, and recommend simple solutions that, if adopted, might make the real-world problem worse.
| Type: | Book chapter |
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| Title: | The marketplace of ideas: who's buying? |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/evidence-and-im... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10217303 |
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