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The Wisconsin legislature made UW system implement post-tenure (5-year) reviews several years ago. The statutory requirements were fed into the…
Sorry, this may be a bit off topic, but if done well, I would really welcome some equivalent of a…
Isn’t one of the problems in this interesting converation how we define “philosophy”? Is philosophy just what is taught and…
I don’t think I misread the paper. Its lament is clear. (It’s a good paper, in style and substance, even…
Sorry, in the *20* years since it was published.
Where in the remarks I sent to Brian is the “highfalutin rhetoric” about the social value of philosophy? As for…
With regard to the paper, it should not be much of a surprise that my views have substantially evolved over…
…is here. From a friend in Chicago:
“Apparently, the official Bush/Cheney re-election website set up a vehicle via which Bushies could create their own banners on-line and then print them out with the official Bush/Cheney emblem and “Paid for by Bush/Cheney campaign” at the bottom. Ever enterprising, some folks of an entirely different persuasion found the site and generated a few banners of their own. As you might imagine, the Sloganator program was quickly shut down.”
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