Communities

A pretty grim state of affairs. What the author does not note is that the so-called "marketisation" of higher education in the UK was actually the worst of both worlds: universities continue to be under the control of state bureaucrats,...

Philosopher Daniel Kaufman comments, and it's a very interesting read.

The trailer: Among those I recognized were the philosophers Daniel Dennett, Robert Kane,and Gregg Caruso, as well as the physicist Sean Carroll and biologist Jerry Coyne. Oddly, the trailer features Dennett saying, incorrectly, that we have had the problem of...

...back in 2018 (with a guest appearance by the dishonest weasel Jonathan Ichikawa).

Not really, but there may be a silver lining for them in the latest rain cloud: DeSantis’s proposals include requiring that students at the colleges take certain core courses “grounded in actual history, the actual philosophy that has shaped Western...