To emphasize this: this isn't Purdue's engineering school. It's a new school of engineering *education*.https://engineering.purdue.edu/ENE/AboutUs
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Read that page carefully. They're not teaching engineers, they're teaching people to *teach* engineers. This is a generational project.
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Expanded version of their "Strategic Compass": https://engineering.purdue.edu/ENE/AboutUs/StratPlan … Essentially nothing about engineering, everything about the creed.
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Why is this idea more radical than the other? Really. Dialectics and fact will always prevail over rhetoric once time has played its course.
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Sorry, I don't understand what you mean.
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Why are you upset?
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Ask Hypatia.
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Hypatia solved it nicely. Life moves on.
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"de-centering Western civ" can be accomplished by training people to appreciate good ideas regardless of the source, if that was the point
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but obviously it isn't so we get this instead :/
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It's surprising how so much of science history has been viewed as a threat to the authority, finality, or totality of science
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science shouldn't be pretending to authority-finality-totality in the first place, that's halfway to theologyland
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Even the science history of Kuhn which replicates many of the silly mythology about Copernicus, Galileo et al is this grave threat
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@Clairlemon -- the really puzzling thing is how this has happened under the watch of MITCH DANIELS, of all people. Fucking bizarre.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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