Comments on: Philosophy Is Sexy

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:21:34 +0000

I’ve always wondered what good we’re doing teaching students about formal logic. The question is especially pressing now that I’m TAing it this term. It would be nice to see hard evidence on the subject, but knowing about the feminist librarian experiment suggests the results might not be very good.

By: none

none — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:21:00 +0000

By: Lars Christian Smith

Lars Christian Smith — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:26:38 +0000

Of course, the French have embraced “philo” for a long time. This is a country where high school exam questions in philosophy are discussed on the front pages of newspapers and on the evening TV news, and where professors of philosophy are interviewed about their take on the exam questions.

By: Lars Christian Smith

Lars Christian Smith — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:26:00 +0000

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:56:19 +0000

Well Rutgers is one of the top ranked grad programs in the country. Not too surprising.

Will, I’d love a list of Philosophy blogs/blogs by phil majors. (If you’d like to start taking requests from commenters, that is).

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:56:00 +0000

Well Rutgers is one of the top ranked grad programs in the country. Not too surprising.

Will, I’d love a list of Philosophy blogs/blogs by phil majors. (If you’d like to start taking requests from commenters, that is).

By: bjk

bjk — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:19:47 +0000

The most stunning stat in that article is that the 27 professors and 60 graduate students nearly outnumbered the 100 graduating majors.

By: bjk

bjk — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:19:00 +0000

The most stunning stat in that article is that the 27 professors and 60 graduate students nearly outnumbered the 100 graduating majors.

By: War In Iraq » Philosophy Is Sexy

War In Iraq » Philosophy Is Sexy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:33:58 +0000

[...] Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle wrote an interesting post today on Philosophy Is SexyHere’s a quick excerpt Commenter glory points me to this NYT piece from a few days ago on the vogue in studying philosophy: Once scoffed at as a luxury major, philosophy is being embraced at Rutgers and other universities by a new generation of college students who are drawing modern-day lessons from the age-old discipline as they try to make sense of their world, from the morality of the war in Iraq to the latest political scandal. The economic downturn has done little, if anything, to dampen this enthusiasm among [...]

By: GU

GU — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:20:07 +0000

I found philosophy to be far more intellectually honest than the other liberal arts departments on campus. Most of the philosophy professors were raging liberals (in the statist sense) but gave very fair consideration to opposing viewpoints in ethics and political philosophy courses.

Also, Logic and M&E aren’t very politically charged, once you get past the proofs of God not existing. While studying philosophy, I’ve never felt more committed to finding the real truth about things.

By: GU

GU — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:20:00 +0000

By: wph

wph — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:45:45 +0000

Will

I stand corrected. Perhaps I was too quick to extrapolate from the one quote, and my own college days of the early 90s.

I’m glad that people are experiencing the joys of liberal arts education again, (even if it makes them poorer in the short term).

By: wph

wph — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:45:00 +0000

Will

I stand corrected. Perhaps I was too quick to extrapolate from the one quote, and my own college days of the early 90s.

I’m glad that people are experiencing the joys of liberal arts education again, (even if it makes them poorer in the short term).

By: Philosophy Is Sexy · Buwin Technology

Philosophy Is Sexy · Buwin Technology — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:19:42 +0000

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By: Jim Cote

Jim Cote — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:15:13 +0000

Ok, so obviously I hadn’t seen the previous post.