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Philosophy in the Nuclear Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Barrie Paskins
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I have chosen this title to set myself the task of commenting on the practice of philosophy in the light of my work as a philosopher in a university postgraduate department of war studies. I shall begin with some general remarks on how we are to understand ‘philosophy’, then discuss a neglected one-sidedness in the commentary which philosophers have attempted on such topics as the problems of the nuclear age.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 22: Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Problems , September 1987 , pp. 95 - 116
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1987

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