I think “moar humanities for barbarian STEM” is really a call for “vocationalized” humanities. They don’t want actual dangerous liberal-educational effect a philosophy or world history course might have for eg. The want to force feed their ethics *conclusions* onto STEMmies.
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This point is far broader and more true than for just STEM students
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Well, something like “Engineering Ethics” is a pretty blunt instrument compared to say a Marxist-lesbian revisionist course of the French Revolution or something. That’s more ideological subversion than vocationalization.
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I can handle the Marxist-Lesbian take on the French Revolution (and indeed I think I’ve heard it). My beef is dropping the French Revolution, then dropping any real basis in Marx and just bloviating on “theory” which has no epistemic rules or form and calling that “Humanities”
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Developing rigorous intellectual tools for thinking critically about power—and specifically for understanding how the current set of power arrangements do not reflect any natural virtue on the part of the winners—is a useful life lesson and skill, no matter what...
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