Word: goldfarb
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Usually less than half of the concentrators write honors theses. Perhaps part of the reason is that Faculty members in the department actively discourage students from writing theses unless they are extremely enthusiastic and possess cogent proposals for their very specific topic. Goldfarb explains that Faculty members expect Philosophy theses to be especially probing--like the concentration itself...
...graduate students and undergraduates working closely with one another. Yet the size may also be the department's largest drawback. With only ten Faculty members, each specializing in his field of expertise, the department cannot provide courses covering the range of the world's philosophies. According to Warren D. Goldfarb '69, head tutor of the concentration, the almost complete abscence of courses in modern continental and Eastern philosophy reflects the conscious decision of the department to sacrifice breadth in the coverage of diverse philosophies. Instead the department attempts to focus with more intensity and rigor on the central issues that...
...technical. "It was mathematics, not humanities. We just learned to work with mathematical systems and equations," James L. Matory '82, who switched from Philosophy to Social Anthropology after one semester, says. Although he readily admits that students experienced in math tend to do better in the course, Goldfarb explains that the material is not inaccessible to those who approach the course with an open mind: "The goal of the course is to introduce many studnets to a new form of thinking," he says...
Warren D. Goldfarb, assistant professor of Philosophy, said yesterday he had about 50 per cent of Willard V. O. Quine's "Methods of Logic," copied for students in his Philosophy 140, "Deductive Logic" course last fall since the Coop supplied about 75 copies less than needed. Goldfarb said that although he did not ask the publisher for the right to copy portions of the book, the book was out of print and "Quine wouldn't mind...