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Category Archives: Higher Education Generally
Does a Technology-Driven Civilization Need Liberal Arts Learning?
To say higher education in the U.S. is in poor shape may be the understatement of the century. Whether it is due to outrageous and still-rising tuition payments now made by undergraduates and students in professional programs who will graduate … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Higher Education Generally, Philosophy, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged adjunct crisis, bloated administrations, conservatism, conservative speakers disrupted, culture wars, foundations of morality, future of higher education, future of philosophy, higher education, higher education defunded, Identity Politics, indentured servitude, liberal arts, political economy of higher education, real education, Steven Yates, student loan debt, traditionalism, vocationalism
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Of Climate Change, Science, and Experts: A Meditation
[Author´s note: co-posted on NewsWithViews.com but has yet to appear there. I have added and deleted a number of lines here and there and in general tried to increase clarity wherever possible.] A few months ago, a friend of mine, his … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Books, Election 2016 and Aftermath, Higher Education Generally, Philosophy of Science, Political Economy
Tagged American stupidity, anomalism, anomaly hunting, Charles Fort, climate change, climate change denialism, climate change hoax, climate change online, Climategate, experts, how we lost our minds, John Cook climate change, Man-made Climate Change, nature of science, parallel institutions need for, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy of science, Thomas S. Kuhn
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The Art of the Argument: Stefan Molyneux’s Book Reviewed on LGP
(Note: co-posted as a product review on Amazon.com with the necessary modifications.) Stefan Molyneux, The Art of the Argument: Western Civilization’s Last Stand (Kindle Edition, Amazon Digital Services LLC: August 27, 2017). Pp. 172 / kb 299. This book was panned on … Continue reading
Pivotal Western philosophers no longer welcomed by students at this British university because of their color.
Plato? Descartes? Kant? Pivotal figures, all, who irreversibly changed the direction of what Richard Rorty called the conversation of the West. But to the up-and-coming generation of students, there’s a problem. Weren’t they all white males? With Plato it might … Continue reading
The Spat Over A Christian Philosopher’s Presentation Reveals the True State of the Profession: Wretched!
“The more the antics of hard-leftist professors with tenure can be exposed … in articles, on blogs, on Facebook, etc., the wider will be the realization that academic philosophy may be active institutionally but is intellectually dead in the water. The wider the doors may one day open to the writings of us outsiders in a troubled world hungering for meaning and actual critical thinking, the sorts of things philosophy traditionally pointed toward and provided.” Continue reading
What Is It Like to Be a Lost Generation Philosopher (Part 3)
[Continued from Parts One and Two] Given that you pursued a career in academic philosophy, any specific regrets? One big one from my early days. Not turning my MA thesis on Paul Feyerabend into my first book. The idea was … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Higher Education Generally, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged Adjunct, Adjuncts, anarchism, angry white male, Careers in academia, Careers in higher education, Careers in philosophy, Chile, Descartes, Donald Trump, Education in Chile, Ethics, Feyerabend, globalization, Leopold Kohr, libertarianism, Lost Generation, Moving to Chile, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, philosophy of science, political correctness, political economy, Political philosophy, Portraits of American Philosophy, racism, radical feminism, STEM education
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What Is It Like to Be a Lost Generation Philosopher (Part 2)
[Continued from here.] Getting back to personal stuff again if you don’t mind: what did your parents make of your decision to go into philosophy? My mom had always encouraged me to find out and pursue what I was really … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Christian Worldview, Higher Education Generally, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged Adjunct, Feyerabend, incommensurability, Lost Generation, Nicholas Maxwell, Philosophy, philosophy of science, Thomas S. Kuhn
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