Philosophy needs to face up to the global problems of our times: Nicholas Maxwell: Our fundamental problem: A revolutionary approach to philosophy. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020, xiii + 298 pp., $34.95 CAD PB.

Philosophy needs to face up to the global problems of our times: Nicholas Maxwell: Our fundamental problem: A revolutionary approach to philosophy. Maxwell thinks we can find an explanation if we embrace a purposive interpretation of Darwin's theory of evolution. Maxwell thus contends that our institutions, social endeavours and culture, need to adopt an I aim-oriented i rationalism, to transform knowledge-inquiry into wisdom-inquiry. [Extracted from the article]