Big questions …

… The Templeton Effect - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

As it has for centuries, the contest of metaphors for the rightful place of philosophy continues. "In some of the philosophy that is sensitive to the empirical disciplines," says Samuel Newlands, "it looks like philosophy becoming handmaiden to the sciences. I've always been a little bit uncomfortable with that relationship." He wants to see, instead, a relationship that is more genuinely collaborative, one in which philosophers can contribute more substantively. "Maybe when we have funding to offer, we can at least get some kind of seat at the table," adds Newlands.