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4 天之前 · Here's a good explainer--if Trump fires 50,000 government employees (and he may fire more), it will not only wreak economic havoc in the Washington, DC metro area, it should impair the ability of government to function competently. That may be one of the points, of course, although I assume Trump's main motivation is to have …
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2024年12月5日 · Professor Bolton, a longtime member of the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where she was emerita, was well-known for her work on Locke and Leibniz, among other figures in early modern philosophy. (Her husband, the philosopher Robert ...
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Reader Scott Newstok called my attention to this very interesting LRB review essay of John Guillory's latest attempt to look at the history and organization of literary studies as a field. A brief excerpt: For Guillory, the pivotal development in the whole story was the arrival of ‘criticism’ as the dominant approach in the 1920s and 1930s, whether in the form of I.A. Richards’s ...
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Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Graduate school writing samples
2024年10月23日 · Some very good advice from philosopher Bernhard Nickel at Harvard. My only small caveat is this: while I agree with Professor Nickel that the writing sample need not be in one's primary area, if it is too far afield of anything the department does, that will not work out well (e.g., don't submit a paper on Heidegger when applying to MIT).
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2022年5月2日 · A robust defense from his wife; this bit was striking:. As was widely reported, Princeton’s department last year voted to eliminate its language requirement for undergraduates.Now it has eliminated its most legendary language instructor. The great irony is that the elimination of the language requirement was, in part, to encourage students to take ancient languages other than Latin and Greek ...
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A soon-to-be PhD student writes: I am an incoming philosophy PhD student at a university in a major U.S. city. While I have been fortunate enough to receive funding and a stipend for the duration of my program, I find myself increasingly worried about getting by with rising inflation and costs of living — especially considering that the stipend is the same for all five years.
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