... stellar SAT scores, and ambition, they matriculated at some of the top colleges in the US, majoring in subjects like English, history, and philosophy. ...
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Comments section is just starting but already interesting. Even more interesting is the question of whether being a carnivore might hurt you on the market (this comes up in the comments).
This past week, Mrs. Knutsen's Honors English 11 classes have been reading “Anthem” by Ayn Rand. It is a dystopian fiction that takes place in the ...
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With the recent EndNote vs. Zotero controversy, I thought it was ironic that I received a request to participate in market research from the makers of EndNote. I wrote up a little post about that urging academics who receive this email to not participate in the study.
(1) To what extent are people applying to philosophy graduate programs at the top schools disadvantaged (in the selection process) if they are older than your average grads - say 35-40 years?
(2) To what extent are older graduates disadvantaged in the job market once they've received their phds?
A nice link from Leiter to a story about UCLA's financial situation---just one of the state-funded campuses severely affected by California's horrible budget crisis. The situation is, to say the least, grim.
There is, I think, something of a standard history of 20th Century English-speaking philosophy, at least through 1980. The broad outlines are fairly familiar.
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This post is Part I of a multipart series on Albert E. Blumberg (1906-1997), chief of the Maryland Communist Party during the Great Depression and World War ...
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