to whatever extent the chronicle article is true, it is also true that there is much interest among a new cadre of philosophers to do work that is more immediately meaningful and relevant. In the space of about a year, the new public philosophy network already has more than 500 members, and we just had a very successful first conference in DC. visit our website and consider joining:
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On Dec 12, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Joan Callahan wrote:
> Well, this is certainly all true. But it's also true that philosophers are very busy writing for one another, and have not systematically resisted making ourselves more and more irrelevant to the realities "ordinary" people deal with day in and day out. We are a highly, highly professionalized group of (fine) scholars. But that will not save philosophy departments these days. We need to be making substantial differences to students' lives. When we are, they will rise up to keep us, don't you think?
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> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Bat-Ami Bar On <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The crisis of Philosophy is not unique to Philosophy but is more general and may be described as a crisis of the humanities and even in more general terms as the crisis of the academy. The crisis is also not local but felt in academic institutions throughout the globe. And blaming administrators does not work either in the case of this crisis. The academy is basically undergoing a huge change (brought to us by the global socio-economic and political changes to which the academy is not immune) that may be effecting public and private institutions slightly differently but no one is coming through this crisis untouched.
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> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 15:52, Christine Cuomo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Joan,
> Thanks for posting, lots to discuss in this! I skimmed this morning and don't think I agree with much as far as the analysis goes (personally, I'd "blame" American culture and university administrators more than people in philosophy departments), but I appreciate that he's highlighting a terrible trend. I for one would love to know what other folks on the FEAST list think...
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> Chris
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> Subject: On Philosophy -- From the US Chronicle of Higher Ed.
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> This is worth looking at. Joan
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> http://chronicle.com/article/Making-Philosophy-Matter-or/130029/?sid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
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