Word: drebenized
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...think a lot of our junior faculty became converted to Quine and Dreben's thought," Korsgaard says. "People who were here went on to be distinguished philosophers elsewhere...
Instead, Leiter says, the University retreated further and further into a dogmatic Quinian stance, solidified by the presence of Burton S. Dreben, a former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who advocated Quine's views...
...Harvard's [inability] to hire [anti-Quinians] is a crucial explanation for Harvard's slippage," Leiter said. "There was this term 'to get Drebenized'-Dreben would beat into the students and faculty this deflationary view of philosophy...
...Dreben served as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1973 to 1975, during which time he cut graduate school enrollments while championing academic ideals...
...Dreben was also an active member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), serving as the body's parliamentarian during the tumultuous years of the late 1960s, when he argued for open debate between students and Faculty members over contentious issues like draft deferment and the 1969 student strike...