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What Good is Philosophy?

What Good is Philosophy?

  Does philosophy help one make tough decisions in life or lead to a career asking 'do you want fries with that?'

Host Keith Shortall was joined by:

Tom Verde, writer specializing in culture/history of Islam and Christianity. He served on the faculty of Ethics, Philosophy and Religion at King's Academy in Jordan and is a former freelance producer at for MPBN

Dr. Kate Wininger - she teaches in both the Philosophy Dept. and the Women and Gender Studies Program at the University of Southern Maine

Dr. Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth - Professor of Philosophy at Mount Mary College and keynote speaker at St. Ansgar Lutheran Church Soren Kierkegaard 200th birthday celebration

 

[What Good is Philosophy? originally aired on Maine Calling May 14, 2013.]

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