Yes, very much.
Folk in #philosophy a question for yinz. I always think of the canon as stuff there’s a normative expectation that someone finishing an undergrad degree (or at about that level) be familiar with. So it’s primarily a teaching category. Does this accord with your sense of the term?
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Do you know Lisa Shapiro's paper on that in the APA journal?
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No I don’t! Link would be welcome, but I can take a look later.
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I'm not sure I have any definite meaning that I attach to the term "canon" as used in philosophy. (I don't use the term much if ever.) As to the normative expectation, I think there is an expectation that students will be familiar with the early modern canon. But ...
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It seems plausible that there is a canonical list of medieval philosophers, a canonical list of Islamic philosophers, of pragmatist philosophers, or German idealists, of existentialists, etc., etc. I don't think there is any expectation of familiarity with *those* canons.
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I have opinions on this! I think of "the canon" as the backbone of grad school (1st 2 years of professionalization). I don't think it has much bearing on undergrad education & we're hurting our students by treating it as if it does or should.
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What do you think makes it good for graduates but not undergraduates?
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Aye that is the sort of thing I have in mind! For the record I don't mean a normative expectation that you yourself share, I just meant that there is in the community such a normative expectation.
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Two things. 1 ) I don't mean a normative expectation that you yourself endorse, more asking what your sense of the social sense of a canon is. 2 ) I don't really see what makes the normative expectations approach fit with the training-for-specialists approach, can you say more?
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