A philosophy professor should certainly be concerned about students coming in with a fixed & narrow, ideological view of society, a refusal to engage other ideas and a hostility to them. All reasonable people are.
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A philosophy professor should not expect to teach certain ideas without controversy because s/he always has or to be able to 'patiently explain' that there is no problem with gender studies because these academics are her friends & have this accepted.
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What kind of philosophy student writes on an exam that an idea is "entitled liberal bullshit"?
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The same one that will be asking you how you want your latte?
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That prof is a self proclaimed socialist who writes for jacobin mag.
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You only have to look at the stuff
@RealPeerReview lampoons to see things to be sceptical of - it’s not all JP, at least some of it is genuine irritation about feminist glaciology and “everything bad is due to patriarchy” stuff. -
Mind you, I’m also the person who would say “ah, you’re doing philosophy? Then allow me to answer the most important question you’ll ever ask; yes, I want fries with that.”
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(And I’m dead certain the hostility towards Post-Modernism and its fellow-traveller critical theory is because that stuff is being injected into other courses as The Way, The Truth, and The Light, instead of as just another approach)
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I think it’s brilliant
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