John Dewey (1917) writes in his article "The need for recovery of philosophy" - in the book "Creative intellegence: Essays in the pragmatic attitude") that philosophy is useless unless it is about real problems of men. He writes: "Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men."
While I agree to some extent with Dewey, I also feel that the question you asked is grounded in a false assumption: philosophy does not require any form of recovery since it is not in any true danger.
One century ago, with the rise of social sciences, philosophy was endangered and was frequently relegated to the periphery of several issues. But eventually re-established itself as the go-to stop of most serious debates.
Diplomacy, political science and international relations rely on philosophical thoughts and approaches quite often, as do most subjects that related in any form to ethical or moral matters.
Another form where ethics and axiology have proven themselves is bioethics. From animal rights, to ecology, environmentalism and more medical issues, like assisted suicide, abortion, genetic research, etc.
Epistemology is the basis of science itself and I own much of what I know and can do to the works of epistemology written by the likes of Bachelard, Kuhn, Polanyi, Popper or Bhaskar. The new approaches to social sciences that rose in the 70s were greatly influenced by philosophy, especially phenomenology and post-structuralism and post-modernism.
Aesthetics have become more important and discussed than ever before. From writing to film and even videogames and new forms of media. Image, message, story-telling and the perception of beauty and how the notion of beauty itself exists is something that permeates our everyday live.
Finally, logic, well, it never went out of fashion, although formal logic is becoming more prevalent in politics and communication.
In sum, all the major fields of philosophy are alive and well, with new subfields emerging and shaping themselves to follow new technologies and scientific approaches. We sometimes might not realize that philosophy is present and many courses phased out philosophy chairs for more practical oriented ones. But philosophy is in everything we do and everything we know.
Thus we can say that philosophy did reinvent itself, so much that many are not even aware that they know something about philosophy. They just call it other name.
Science is a process of thinking ,innovation ,& sometimes it helps our mental tuning with an intuition .However the science is a subject matter of experimental of & in quite good case a subject of laboratory which also help the scientist inspiring him to carry out the same with the help of intuition .
Philosophy cannot establish overall relation with the philosophy as the science call for concentration with the result & philosophy starts with meditation,.a line of concentration but in a different mode that philosophy deals & helps us the action of our body of Mind ,& to the conscious & subconscious it helps us to move in a inner silent voice with divinity within us .
It is in this line the philosophy brings us overall peaceful thinking in a calm & quite manner to carry out our action of our day to day life.
This is my personal opinion
While I agree to some extent with Dewey, I also feel that the question you asked is grounded in a false assumption: philosophy does not require any form of recovery since it is not in any true danger.
One century ago, with the rise of social sciences, philosophy was endangered and was frequently relegated to the periphery of several issues. But eventually re-established itself as the go-to stop of most serious debates.
Diplomacy, political science and international relations rely on philosophical thoughts and approaches quite often, as do most subjects that related in any form to ethical or moral matters.
Another form where ethics and axiology have proven themselves is bioethics. From animal rights, to ecology, environmentalism and more medical issues, like assisted suicide, abortion, genetic research, etc.
Epistemology is the basis of science itself and I own much of what I know and can do to the works of epistemology written by the likes of Bachelard, Kuhn, Polanyi, Popper or Bhaskar. The new approaches to social sciences that rose in the 70s were greatly influenced by philosophy, especially phenomenology and post-structuralism and post-modernism.
Aesthetics have become more important and discussed than ever before. From writing to film and even videogames and new forms of media. Image, message, story-telling and the perception of beauty and how the notion of beauty itself exists is something that permeates our everyday live.
Finally, logic, well, it never went out of fashion, although formal logic is becoming more prevalent in politics and communication.
In sum, all the major fields of philosophy are alive and well, with new subfields emerging and shaping themselves to follow new technologies and scientific approaches. We sometimes might not realize that philosophy is present and many courses phased out philosophy chairs for more practical oriented ones. But philosophy is in everything we do and everything we know.
Thus we can say that philosophy did reinvent itself, so much that many are not even aware that they know something about philosophy. They just call it other name.
A good Philosophy of Science research part there to profile/green_moon2 Online Lab, and its fathoming of now formal Experiential_Philosophy (ISP CO, Walllace pioneer). James was the hero to that dialog. A lot of answers to this are provided by my Lab research call to CalTec appearing as a foreground document to the Lab page.
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