Diversity in Ethical Reasoning &the Art of Teaching -PhilosophyRichard Burgess, M.A. Deputy Director Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism AndNational Institute for Engineering Ethics 2012
“The value of philosophy is, in fact, to be sought largely in its very uncertainty. The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason. To such a man the world tends to become definite, finite, obvious, common objects rouse no questions, and unfamiliar possibilities are contemptuously rejected”Bertrand Russell from The Problems of Philosophy (New York: OUP, 1969)On the Value of Philosophy