Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined (guest post)

“We are frankly stunned to find a focus… on intemperate social media posts, papers that didn’t after all get retracted, and books being published by second-choice publishers.” * * * The Vanderbilt “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences,” was published this past summer, with a special report about academic philosophy authored by Kit Fine (NYU) and Gideon Rosen (Princeton). In the following guest post, Talia Bettcher (Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in Gender-Based Violence and Trans Community Resilience, University of Waterloo) and Jennifer Saul (Canada Research Chair in the Study of Hatred, Misinformation and Communication, University of Waterloo) respond to Fine and Rosen’s report. Major Threats to the Health of Philosophy, Real and Imagined:a Response to Fine and Rosenby Talia Bettcher and Jennifer Saul Following the Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences (Boghossian et al,…

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