Brighouse discusses his contribution to an anthology on grade inflation. From the post: "I started off assuming (with no real evidence) that grade inflation was real and believing (for no real reasons) that it was bad; I discovered that there is no evidence of grade inflation (which doesn’t, of course, mean that it doesn’t exist) and that the reasons for thinking it would be bad if it did exist are pretty weak."
Harry Brighouse has a great post about the purpose of grades in the academic institution and a discussion of whether there is a case to be made for grade inflation over the past few decades.
Leiter links to the 10 best papers in philosophy as decided by Philosopher's Annual. Hopefully people will follow this link to the papers, read them, and then post those papers of interest to sympoze!
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The philosopher Montaigne, writing during the 16th century, said that the education system does not aim to make us good and wise, but learned: “We readily ...
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Taipei, June 10 (CNA) Taiwan's oldest graduate student Chao Mu-he, 98, will be awarded a master's degree in philosophy Friday, in an embodiment of the adage ...
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Don't agree...but it's an interesting thought worth considering
Over at the Feminist Philosophers blog, someone asked: "If there were one or two things you could change about academia, what would it be?" A heartening answer (from my point of view at least) given by several commenters: grading!Some choice comments and observations below the fold:
A grad student writes: How should one choose a supervisor? I'm a graduate student at a PGR rank 15 - 20 school, and starting to think seriously about dissertation topics. One consequence of our relative status is a very mixed...Brian Leiter
This post has various advice about publishing as a graduate student. Some might consider this common knowledge but I suspect it is worth reading anyway. For example, it can't hurt to be reminded that "Rejections are a natural part of the process. Anybody who submits nontrivial work to philosophy journals gets rejections."
