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?
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?
