Since its inception in 1989, the Miami Plan has represented liberal education at Miami. Rather than a set core curriculum or a list of classes, the Miami Plan is a “total curriculum” philosophy that ...

Last month, as he presided over the elimination of 28 academic programs and 143 faculty positions—most notably the dismantling of the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics—West ...

The faculty of UB’s Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) program has received a $2.5 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for an innovative project that will demonstrate how diversity, ...

When I taught Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University’s core courses on political and moral philosophy from Plato through Freud, officially and awkwardly called “Introduction to Contemporary ...

Thought is dead and liberal arts have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, in the midst of the murder of all murders? Penn claims to be an archetype of an educational institution that is going ...

Is liberal education losing in power to attract youth? This is alleged in many quarters. In college and secondary school, the studies which wear a vocational aspect are being preferred, we are told, ...

Analytic philosophy has become the dominant school in anglophone philosophy departments since 1945. Christoph Schuringa persuasively argues that it has served to reinforce a liberal common sense that ...

Examine complex problems, challenge ideas, and communicate clearly in RIT’s versatile philosophy degree. Dynamic Curriculum: Provides a thorough grounding in core areas of philosophy (history of ...

The past three decades have witnessed a renaissance in attention given to Roman political thought by scholars of ancient literature, history, philosophy, and the history of political thought. Of the ...