
Use philosophical research for policy making, Philo students urged
PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH should use observation and experience to craft policies that would benefit the public, a philosophy professor said.
While philosophical studies are not usually tied to public service, their use of empirical data and methods could make the field relevant even to people outside of it, UST philosophy Prof. Peter Paul Elicor said.
“It is also a way of doing public philosophy because one makes a philosophical claim that non-specialists in philosophy, the public, can know and relate to,” Elicor said during the “Expanding Horizons Empirical Approaches in Empirical Research” webinar held last Nov. 6.
“Instead of doing work that only philosophers can understand, if one can use this, the leadership gets widened and other people from other disciplines would benefit...