Conclusion: If on a winter’s night a ship wrecks

Contemporary Philosophy for Maritime Archaeology has sought to address two aims, as outlined in the introduction. First, “to help usher the alienated subdiscipline of maritime archaeology into the broader discourse of the humanities” and, second, “to issue a call to action for fellow maritime archaeologists to respond to ecocide more urgently, more crossdisciplinarily, and more responsibly with new interventions into old research questions” (Rich and Campbell, this volume). The extent to which these aims are successful – measured by engagement of the field with the ideas proposed in this volume – remains to be seen, but this concluding chapter reviews the contributions and responses to tease out the recurrent themes within the chapters that further these lofty aims.