Sentences with phrase «alternative public philosophy»

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Whether this is the logical outworking of the metaphysical and anthropological premises of liberalism or a radically new thing — and Hans Jonas's analysis would suggest that these are not mutually exclusive alternatives — it marks a point of no return in American public philosophy.

«I sit at the intersection of scientific modeling [and] public policy — looking at how those models are applied in ranking alternative policy solutions — and then philosophy, where I look at questions of how good the models are and when they become good enough to drive public - policy decisions,» he says.