How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World: The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution - Couverture souple

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Maxwell, Nicholas

 
9781845405731: How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World: The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution
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ISBN 10 : 1845405730 ISBN 13 : 9781845405731
Editeur : Imprint Academic, 2014

Synopsis

In order to make progress towards a better world we need to learn how to do it. And for that we need institutions of learning rationally designed and devoted to helping us solve our global problems, make progress towards a better world. It is just this that we lack at present. Our universities pursue knowledge. They are neither designed nor devoted to helping humanity learn how to tackle global problems -- problems of living -- in more intelligent, humane and effective ways. That, this book argues, is the key disaster of our times, the crisis behind all the others: our failure to have developed our institutions of learning so that they are rationally organized to help us solve our problems of living -- above all, our global problems. Having universities devoted almost exclusively to the pursuit of knowledge is a recipe for disaster. Scientific knowledge and technological know-how have unquestionably brought great benefits to humanity. But they have also made possible -- even caused -- our current global crises, above all the impending crisis of global warming. In this lucid and provocative book, Nicholas Maxwell argues convincingly that we need urgently to bring about a revolution in universities round the world so that their basic aim becomes wisdom, and not just knowledge.

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À propos de l?auteur

Nicholas Maxwell is Emeritus Reader in Philosophy of Science at University College London. Previously, he taught philosophy of science in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at UCL for nearly thirty years. Much of his teaching and research has been devoted to arguing that we need to bring about a revolution in academia so that it comes to seek and promote wisdom and does not just acquire knowledge. He has published six books on this theme.

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Éditeur
Imprint Academic
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1845405730
ISBN 13 
9781845405731
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
158
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