Enduring Philosophy: Practice and Relevance in the AI Era

Philosophy as a practice, not just an academic discipline, can confront the growing threat to critical thinking. Doing philosophy has the potential to translate innovative methods into cultivating process-oriented learning, critical inquiry, and intellectual resilience. Philosophical Counseling is not a distant or abstract discipline, but an active, engaging practice that trains thinkers in real-time intellectual pursuit through questioning. Instead of emphasizing results, philosophical counseling cultivates habits of questioning, dialogue, and reasoning as exercises of critical thinking. This article addresses why and how philosophers might take an interest in advocating for the relevance of philosophy as a perspective towards the world rather than a specific activity. The moment is ripe when the public conversation is questioning the benefits and consequences of technological advances and realizing that society is changing irreversibly – philosophers are the ones most equipped to inform and lead the search for alternatives.