“Some people, professors, thinkers, philosophers and whatnot, like to talk about bringing the humanities and sciences together in a comfortable marriage, “just like it used to be.” I say this is a terrible idea “
Indeed. In fact, I say it’s a failure on the part of many a humanities department not to maintain a curriculum without devolving into balkanization and politicization…thus pathetically trying to copy science in search of a new curriculum. Nice try.
Also On This Site: How much of this is simply economics?: Repost-From NPR: ‘Author Louis Menand On Reforming American Universities’…Conservative Briton Roger Scruton suggests keeping political and aesthetic judgments apart in the humanities: Roger Scruton In The American Spectator Via A & L Daily: Farewell To Judgment…Repost-From Scientific Blogging: The Humanities Are In Crisis-Science Is Not…
That’s what happens when you let unreasonable people steer the debate: Repost-Revisting Larry Summers: What Did He Say Again?
…Repost-Is Psychology A Science? From Richard Feynman’s ‘Cargo Cult Science’
