Ep 22 | UTOKing with Nicholas Maxwell | From Knowledge to Wisdom

In Episode 22, Gregg welcomes Nicholas Maxell. He is a British philosopher who has devoted much of his working life to arguing that there is an urgent need to bring about a revolution in academia so that it seeks and promotes wisdom and does not just acquire knowledge. For nearly thirty years he taught philosophy of science at University College London, where he is now Emeritus Reader. In 2003 he founded Friends of Wisdom, an international group of people sympathetic to the idea that academic inquiry should help humanity acquire more wisdom by rational means. In this episode, he recounts his story and shares his vision for why science lost its way by ignoring metaphysics and why the academy should be grounded in an "aim-oriented empiricism" that is oriented toward the cultivation of wisdom.

Here is his homepage

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/from-knowled

 

and here is the Friends of Wisdom Homepage

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/friends-of-wisdom/