Author: chad wellmon
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The University, Virtue and the Limits of Critique
[This is the text of a talk I delivered at “Virtue and the University,” a conference held in May at Christ Church College at Oxford.] In 1917 a group of German university students invited the renowned sociologist Max Weber to Munich…
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The Invention of Philosophy
In the preface to the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant, the eighteenth-century German philosopher who published his magnum opus at the age of fifty after ten years of publishing silence, solicited help from his readers. The…
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Whatever Happened to General Education?
Finance, football, and fraternities—not philosophy or physics—are the pillars of the modern American university. It’s been that way for more than a century: In On the Higher Learning in America (1918)—published fewer than forty years after the founding of Johns Hopkins, America’s…
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Epistemic Inequality
Andrew Piper and I recently completed the first essay in a larger project on knowledge norms and publishing. “Publication, Power, Patronage: On Inequality and Academic Publishing” will be out soon in Critical Inquiry. Our hope for the broader project is to help…
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