In a generous review of my recent book Professors as Teachers, Martin Benjamin supports most of its major contentions, yet he finds outdated my claim that research, not teaching, rules in academia. In response, he details how the field of philosophy has taken steps to emphasize teaching. These steps include the founding of specialized organizations […]
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