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...Rubin, who serves as chairman of Citigroup’s executive committee, said in an interview that his undergraduate experience engrained him with a sense of “restless intellectual inquiry?? and trained him to handle the stressful situations he would face later in life—both this year and during his time at Goldman Sachs, which he led in the early 1990s...
...relative wealth. Now, even the moral dilemmas of altruism are modeled by behavioral economists interested in quantifying the extent to which people are averse to inequality. In order for the social theorist or ethicist to develop such models, however, certain foundational mathematical skills are necessary. Questions of scientific inquiry??from global climate change to the impact of cell phone usage on brain tumors—have become ever relevant to our daily lives; if we are to make informed decisions about issues at the intersection of science and policy, we can’t be daunted by empirical...
...before undergraduates, the Core has several basic flaws. The most glaring of these is rigidity. The Core’s planners rejected the idea that any course besides those specifically prescribed for the Core could possibly fulfill the objective of teaching students the various “modes of inquiry?? used in different fields; hence, they forbade any substitution of departmental courses, either basic or advanced, for the carefully designed “case study” courses approved by the committee. The result is that, as under the Gen Ed system, students devote about half their courses...
...boundary of their bodies and what they see as disgusting. The class will also address questions about the economy and governance, as well as different kinds of embodied experiences like torture. “I think there’s probably three or four different axes of inquiry??not all of which are always running in the same direction at the same time—but for me they intersect in different, illuminating ways,” Johnson said. Instead of a final research paper, the class will culminate with a historiographical essay in which students will...
...shield was originally intended to invoke the absolutes of divine revelation, the unassailable verities of Puritan religion. We understand it quite differently now. Truth is an aspiration, not a possession. Yet in this we—and all universities defined by the spirit of debate and free inquiry??challenge and even threaten those who would embrace unquestioned certainties. We must commit ourselves to the uncomfortable position of doubt, to the humility of always believing there is more to know, more to teach, more to understand...