Thursday, December 12, 2024

Academics

Japan’s Universities Slash Humanities, Social Sciences

Analytic philosophy is marked by emphasis on using logic and formal methods of reasoning, conceptual evaluation, and the use of symbolic and/or mathematical logic, as contrasted with the Continental fashion of philosophy. This method of inquiry is largely indebted to the work of philosophers such as Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The frustration I most frequently encounter – particularly from students coming from excessive schools that too often ‘teach to the test’ as a substitute of instructing abilities – is in the apparently round-about means that the humanities teaches this stuff. Why not shovel cash directly into Hollywood and a handful of ‘leadership institutes’? At the identical time, the research of the humanities, properly done, broadens the range of reference factors past a single tradition. As I hope the pictures that go with this essay present, when I say the humanities, I do not merely mean the research of the same few dozen European ‘great books.’ By no means am I throwing the western ‘canon’ out, but it is not the whole of the humanities.

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