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So You Want To Get A PhD In The Humanities
November 28, 2010 By 6 Comments
On The Various Disciplines’ Resources For Engaging The Enduring Questions
July 13, 2009 By 1 Comment
Professor Jude Jones has stopped by to offer an excellent retort to my recent remarks in reply to her. Our topic is whether a new NEH call for grant proposals presumes that non-philosophers can address “the enduring questions” usually considered the domain of philosophy better than philosophers have or equal to how we have. Here [...]
On The Goals Of Introductory Philosophy Courses
July 13, 2009 By 1 Comment
In reply to my previous post on grants offered by the NEH to non-philosopher academics for creating novel classes on “enduring questions,” a philosophy professor writes to me in private: Interesting. I share your general sensibilities on this, but it’s not clear to me that they are being sought “to teach philosophy classes”. They are [...]
“Wanted: Non-Philosophers To Do Philosophy”
July 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The National Endowment for the Humanities is offering grants to academics outside of philosophy to develop courses on “enduring questions” that have long been the domain of philosophers and philosophy classes: They make the dubious and ambiguous claim that these questions are “pre-disciplinary” because they are, supposedly “questions to which no discipline or field can [...]
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