You might be thinking, “Hey, philosophy is in the humanities shouldn’t a professor of ‘the practice of the humanities’ know about the abundance of trade books published by philosophers that aim to discuss ‘philosophy in an accessible and meaningful way’?” The answer is: don’t blame the potential audience for not getting your message. Lightman is also Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). I wish more authors would write about philosophy in an accessible and meaningful way, as does the writer Rebecca Goldstein. Yesterday, in an interview in The New York Times, physicist and novelist Alan Lightman made a wish-a wish the readers of Daily Nous are well-positioned to grant, or at least point out how it has been granted.Īsked, “Which subjects do you wish more authors would write about?”, Lightman replied:Īs a scientist, it would be natural for me to say the subject of science, but there are already many wonderful books about science.
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