Here are two interesting pieces on term-paper mills:
Cheating Goes Global as Essay Mills Multiply – Chronicle of Higher Education
The Paper Market – On the Media (from NPR)
Archive > March 2009
Cheating
On the Difference Between Philosophy and Science
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I previously posted something about whether philosophy is “subjective” (Philosophy is Subjective, Science Objective?). I concluded that it’s not a difference between philosophy and science that philosophy is subjective while science is objective. I concluded this on the basis of the following two claims:
(1) Philosophy, like science, is a truth-seeking discipline.
(2) Both philosophy [...]
A Collection of Philosophers (and Some Psychologists) in the Media
There have been a lot of philosophers on the Internet and in various other media over the past year or so. I thought some readers would like to know, in case they don’t already.
On Majoring in Philosophy
Andrew Cullison over at Wide Scope posted a bit on majoring in philosophy:
http://www.andrewcullison.com/2009/02/why-major-in-philosophy/#more-682
He posts some nice fliers about how well philosophy majors do on the GRE and so on.
Also on this topic, there have been some nice articles recently on some benefits of becoming a philosophy major:
The NY Times reports that philosophy majors are on [...]
Recent Studies on Students’ Expectations, Grade-wise
A recent New York Times article (“Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes”) reports that “a third of students surveyed said that they expected B’s just for attending lectures, and 40 percent said they deserved a B for completing the required reading.” This sounds crazy of course.
However, upon a more detailed inspection of this [...]
