Expanding The Market for Philosophy

Much like Celine Nguyen’s mission to “expand the market for literature (and literary criticism)”, I am interested in expanding the market for philosophy. Why? Because I believe that it gives us the knowledge and tools to critically examine our lives. “The unexamined life is not worth living”, but also more importantly the unexamined life is much more difficult to live and cope with, in my opinion. If we are to understand what the good life is and how to live it, I think that philosophy is the best place to find it. I use my knowledge from my Philosophy degree everyday. While I would absolutely encourage anyone to take Philosophy classes in university, majoring in Philosophy is not the solution for expanding the market for philosophy. If our goal is to increase the number of philosophically literate people, then people in or going to be in secondary education are still too small of a goal. We certainly need ways to target people earlier in the educational pipeline, but also people who…