Doctoral programs in philosophy, and in the humanities in general, have several structural issues: high attrition rates; inadequate university teaching opportunities relative to the number Ph.D.s awarded each year; a lack of diversity (gender, ethnic, socioeconomic); and unreasonably long time-to-degree (TTD) medians. In this post we discuss TTD—why it’s important, the reasons for reducing TTD, […]
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This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 1 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In this series...
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