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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…
Here. Sanders, who would be an ordinary social democrat anywhere else in the civilized world, is the outlier in America. As someone recently noted, Ronald Reagan is still President in the U.S.
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