Let’s face it: universities are tough on everyone. While undergraduates work up a sweat trying to pass their requisite gauntlet of courses, their professors are busy grading papers, preparing lectures, and submitting meaty articles to journals. As the year rolls on, the stress builds, the face-wrinkles show, and the count-down to summer slows to an [...]
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A Market For Philosophy?
Often times it seems that philosophy should be more of apublic event, rather than the chatter of academics in stuffy old rooms. What, however, is the pay-off for the average joe—or what W.V.O. Quine calls “the man in the street?” Enlightenment? An understanding of dead Greece, Rome, Germany? A sense of what sort of life they should live? Popularization of philosophy looks to be a difficult task indeed, considering the nature of the practice.