Category: Academia
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Is College for Everyone?
When I was in the 7th grade my teacher told me I was 'college material,' the implication being that not everyone is. She was right on both counts. I was and not everyone is. But times have changed, and pace Obama, change is not always for the better. Part of the change for the worse…
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Of Kripke, Kuhn, and the “Ashtray Variant” of the Argumentum Ad Baculum
Very interesting in what it says about human nature. (HT: Peter Lupu)
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The Social and Political Views of American Professors
Here. For more on anti-conservative bias, see this e-mail sent to Instapundit. (HT: Mikey)
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From the Mail: What is a Degree in Philosophy Worth?
This just over the transom: My name is Bryce. I am a freshman uni student, studying philosophy. I have a question I believe you are well-suited to answer, considering your vast life experience and knowledge in philosophy; is it worth it to get a college degree in philosophy? I am academically unaffiliated by choice, having…
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B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Gescheit, gescheiter, gescheitert.
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Infinity and Mathematics Education
A reader writes, Regarding your post about Cantor, Morris Kline, and potentially vs. actually infinite sets: I was a math major in college, so I do know a little about math (unlike philosophy where I'm a rank newbie); on the other hand, I didn't pursue math beyond my bachelor's degree so I don't claim to…
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Glenn Reynolds on the Higher Education Bubble
Read it.
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The Kehowski Contretemps: Political Correctness Alive and Well at Glendale Community College
Here, here, and here.
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Do You Want an Academic Job?
Thomas H. Benton, Dodging the Anvil: Essentially, if you want an academic job, you'd better be really good at what you do. You should be at a top university (although sometimes less-famous institutions can be effective at local placements); have at least a few high-quality publications, preferably in top-tier journals; have a dissertation that's nearly…
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What is it with Ladder Man?
His latest outburst.
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Young Scholar, Old Scholar
The young scholar may pepper his prose with foreign expressions so as to appear erudite. But as the years pass, a different ideal may appear choice-worthy, namely, to write as simply as possible, using only the resources of the mother tongue.
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David Gordon Reviews Thomas Nagel’s New Book and Criticizes Brian Leiter’s Puerile Fulminations
David Gordon reviews Thomas Nagel's Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002–2008. The following is a particularly interesting portion of the review in which Gordon comments on a certain status-obsessed careerist's puerile fulminations against a real philosopher:
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From the Mail Bag: Dogmatism in Academe
This just over the transom: I wish I could express to you just how much of a blessing your blog has been (and continues to be) to me. I am a grad student in a Ph.D. program here in the states. I read your site for enjoyment, but also because I find that you tend to…