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...course it is hard to disagree with Knowles’ statement that “even if…there was hardly any student interest in physics or philosophy??intellectual life in the FAS would be unacceptably impoverished if it did not include physicists and philosophers.” Student demand should not entirely rule faculty appointments, but it should at least be taken into account, lest the intellectual life of social science concentrators (the majority of students) be “unacceptably impoverished” by their lack of faculty contact...
...speakers, are products of budget constraints. We have to prioritize to make the most benefit out of our money.” And rather than echo the common complaint that the UC has no philosophy behind its funding choices, we believe that indiscriminate, non-preferential funding is itself a philosophy??and the fairest method of supporting all groups on campus...
...doing so, the new report presents a coherent philosophy??tying liberal education to life outside the university and the challenges of a modern, globalized society—that eschews the previously-proposed distributional requirements that received lackluster support from professors...
Does the title of Government 1060, “The History of Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy?? refer to the course's placement in the FAS catalogue (just before Government 1061, “The History of Modern Political Philosophy??) or to instructor Harvey C-Minus Mansfield's birth-year...
...students to start thinking about key questions and potential answers. Moral Reasoning, in other words, forces students to take their academic vitamins whether they like it or not.We, however, do not agree that Moral Reasoning is so exceptional. Moral Reasoning as it exists now—reading political philosophy??is a very narrow conception of how one should think about ethical questions. Indeed, a host of courses in the humanities and social sciences deal with moral questions. Even science courses, not usually thought of as ethics-related, are expanding to address bioethical questions...