{"id":104942,"date":"2019-10-28T09:55:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T08:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=104942"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:32","slug":"philosophy-is-not-an-introverted-discipline-that-wants-to-be-left-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/10\/28\/philosophy-is-not-an-introverted-discipline-that-wants-to-be-left-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Philosophy is not an introverted discipline that wants to be left alone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erasmus Magazine<\/em> published remarkable contributions from colleagues Fred Muller<\/a>, Frank van der Duijn Schouten<\/a>, Ana Uribe Sandoval<\/a> and Willem Schinkel<\/a> in the past weeks. However, this debate also examines the position of Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil) on our campus. A distorted image may arise concerning the role and ambitions of philosophy, in particular at our own university. That is why it seems useful to present the ESPhil perspective on this development.<\/p>\n\t

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This op-ed is a response to a few opinion pieces from the past weeks. We recommend you to read these articles as well.<\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n

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Fred Muller reports on a meeting in a locale known as the ESPhil glass box. The picture painted by him of ESHCC is inadequate, as Frank van der Duijn Schouten argued, but the same unfortunately applies to the way ESPhil is portrayed by colleague Fred. In short, he describes philosophy as an introverted discipline that does not even consider itself scientific and, above all, wants to be left alone. As if philosophers experience the outside world as a threat and have no idea what happens in the building next to us on the campus.<\/p>\n

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Read the article by F. A. Muller<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t