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Category Archives: Higher Education Generally
A comment on, “A philosophical interpretation of recent campus protests” by Huenemanniac
What follows is a lengthy comment on this blog entry. I also came over here from Brian Leiter’s blog, and may be something of a johnny-come-lately because due to work obligations only saw this essay last night. Disclaimer: despite my … Continue reading
Higher Education and Race: Approaching the Nearest Cliff
Over the past month, we’ve been regaled by confrontations at an Ivy League school, Yale, and at the University of Missouri, involving allegations of supposed racism on campuses. The former involved supposedly “insensitive” Halloween costumes and a faculty member who … Continue reading
There Is No Such Thing As “Settled Science” (Here’s Why)
When deciding what to write and post on this blog, I am generally torn between two conflicting impulses. The first is to take note of and comment on those things that eventually drove many of us Lost Generation Philosophers from … Continue reading
Posted in Higher Education Generally, Philosophy of Science, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Against Method, climate change, climate science, corporate science, denialism, global warming, infantilization in academia, Koch Brothers, Leopold Kohr, Lost Generation, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy of science, scientific method, settled science, small state world, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas DiLorenzo, Thomas S. Kuhn, trust in science
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What Is a Liberal Arts Education For?
Liberal arts education has suffered from increasing neglect for a very long time — for at least 40 years, possibly longer. While it continues to exist in a few private liberal arts colleges, obviously, it long ago ceased to be … Continue reading
Posted in Higher Education Generally
Tagged Aristotle, Bertrand Russell, civil unrest, elites, Fareed Zakaria, free your mind, Kuhn, liberal arts, liberal arts education, Morpheus, Occupy movement, power elite, quadrivium, STEM education, Tea Party, The Matrix, Thomas S. Kuhn, trivium
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A “Rape on Campus”? Radical Feminism & the Rolling Stone Fiasco
[Note: I’d planned on doing a piece entitled “What Is a Liberal Arts Education For?” But the culmination of the events described here, and their implication for the sorry state of both higher education and popular journalism today, seemed more … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Higher Education Generally
Tagged A Rape on Campus, academic feminism, academic leftism, campus rape statistics, campus sexual assault statistics, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Haven Monahan, Phi Kappa Psi, political correctness, radical feminism, rape hoaxes, Rolling Stone, University of Virginia
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How Higher Education in the U.S. Has Slowly Self-Destructed
There can be little doubt that at one time, the U.S. had the best higher education system in the world — rivaled only by, perhaps, by institutions in Great Britain such as Oxford and Cambridge. It still lives on that … Continue reading
Posted in Higher Education Generally, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged Adjunct, Brian Leiter, free market, Harry Frankfurt, Herbert Marcuse, higher education decline, Lost Generation, Marcusans, MOOCs, National Adjunct Walkout Day, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, political correctness, Powell Memorandum, student loan debt crisis
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