Philosophy

In the mid-20th century intellectual world, JKG was widely regarded as an original and insightful thinker on economics and politics. He was professor at Harvard and author of widely read books such as The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State. While I was a university student in Canada (coincidentally, Galbraith and I both graduated […]

In colleges and universities, at least. Whether other institutions are picking up the slack and providing the humanities knowledge and experience young human beings need — I don’t have good data. Questions before forming hypotheses: * Have the other majors become more attractive to students, by offering more relevance, job prospects, a healthier and more

… as most American intellectuals remain captive to ideas generated in France and Germany a century ago. See: Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Heidegger, Marcuse, and Foucault.

This image and caption are wonderfully revelatory about how many options young people (especially) now have and how our expectations for our work lives have risen. The caption is sarcastic, suggesting that settling for a job in such a place is beneath one’s expectations and aspirations. Great. Yet when we look closely at the work

A good, informal list: https://paulbloom.net/TeachingAdvice.pdf.

I’m having a trip down memory lane, having come across my grad-school notes on John Dewey’s 1920 Reconstruction in Philosophy. Yes, personal computers had been invented by then, but I was in transition from my old-style card-catalogue method. In part these caught my attention as I am preparing for my upcoming lecture on Dewey for

Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. Yet frequently Nietzsche rejects individualism and elements that go into a full account of individualism. For example, note this from his The Struggle Between Science and Wisdom: “Beginning with Socrates, the individual all at once began to take himself too seriously” (SSW 132). Nietzsche’s sometimes-yes-sometimes-not individualism is

This report by Charol Shakeshaft of Hofstra University. Some excerpted tables: Contrast: A report on Catholic priests found that “about 4 percent of the 110,000 priests active during those years [1950-2002] had been accused of sexual misconduct involving children” (Source; also here).