...at the APA Blog. From the interview:
What excites you about philosophy?
First, I think that philosophy provides the least dogmatic venue for seriously working through the most fundamental questions concerning human life. Of course, individual philosophers are often quite dogmatic, but there is a generally respected norm that even the most dogmatic philosopher owes a sincere justification of their views to even their most ardent critics and on the basis of reasons that even they could accept. That is quite special! Second, I think that philosophy is unique in its ability to seriously engage with other disciplines. It both has a lot to contribute and to learn from them, which means that a philosopher gets to try (and should try) to study everything!
Jaime's work on the micro-foundations of the Marxian theory of ideology, which he also discusses, is very important and will become influential.
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