Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world’s most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.

  1. AG Tanyi's avatar

    Then my question is how many of ordinary mathematicians also qualify as artists of their profession…

  2. John Rapko's avatar
  3. Mark's avatar
  4. David Reidy's avatar
  5. Paul Canis's avatar
  6. Rachel Laudan's avatar
  7. Rollo Burgess's avatar

CEO of company that makes its $$$ by peddling consumer misinformation to students…

…is morally indignant that schools won't cooperate with his enterprise.  This is some real chutzpah!  They don't provide information, they collect data, don't audit it for accuracy, and then throw it into a nonsensical and inexplicable formula to produce an illusion of precision regarding supposed "qualitative" differences.  It's precisely because they are not providing information that they probably can't be sued under "consumer fraud" statutes.

Designed with WordPress