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.
Archive > 09 March 2009
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 [...]
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 [...]