Teaching Political Philosophy as Plausible Reasoning

1985 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 8-8
Author(s):  
Larry Arnhart
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Idaho State University ◽  
Plausible Reasoning ◽  
Northern Illinois University ◽  
The University

I have taught courses on political philosophy at four schools — the University of Chicago, Rosary College, Idaho State University, and Northern Illinois University. I have had to adjust the style of my teaching to conform to the distinctive character of each school. But I have found that the most fundamental obstacles to winning the attention of students have been the same.Many students have begun my courses with four unfavorable preconceptions. They believe that political philosophy is too abstract. And for that reason they also believe that it has no application to contemporary political issues. Moreover, many students assume that since the classic texts of political thought are old, the ideas they contain must therefore be obsolete. And finally they think that political philosophy is ultimately subjective because no philosopher can prove his ideas to be absolutely true.

Edward Shils (1910–1995)

1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius Gould
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Advisory Board ◽  
National Council ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Edward Shils ◽  
The University

EDWARD SHILS WAS A PROLIFIC, FORMIDABLE AND unconventional sociologist. Sustained by his immense learning and extraordinary memory, and following the traditions of Max Weber and of the Chicago School, he brought other disciplines (notably European social and political thought) to bear upon his sociology. Over his long and productive lifetime he held positions in the most distinguished of universities: in England these included the LSE, Manchester and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He regularly spent about half of every year in Cambridge. Above all he was a loyal and long-serving teacher at the University of Chicago where he was distinguished service professor and had been among those who established the Committee of Social Thought. His scholarship was recognized in the USA by the invitation of the US National Council on the Humanities to give the prestigious Jefferson Lecture in 1979 and in Europe by the award of the Balzan Prize for service to general sociology in 1983. Government and Opposition has itself lost a most valued contributor and member of its Advisory Board.

Notes on Contributors

Philosophy ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-155 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Virginia ◽  
James Madison ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Idaho State University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Amélie Oksenberg RortyProfessor of the History of Ideas at Brandeis University. Besides Mind in Action (Beacon, 1998). She has published numerous articles on the history of moral psychology.Roger WertheimerAuthor of The Significance of Sense (awarded Harvard University's Carrier Prize) and frequently anthologized essays in theoretical and applied ethics, and formerly a Guggenheim Fellow and professor at a dozen universities has not found employment for several years.Karen GreenSenior Lecturer in Philosophy at Monash University, Melbourne. She is the author of The Woman of Reason: Feminism, Humanism and Political Thought and teaches feminism and philosophy of language.John BigelowProfessor of Philosophy at Monash University, Melbourne. He is author of the Reality of Numbers and (jointly with Robert Pargetter) Science and Necessity and teaches history of philosophy.Maria AlvarezLecturer in Philosophy, University of Reading.John HymanFellow and Praelector in Philosophy, The Queen's College, Oxford.James CargileProfessor in the Corcoran Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia and is a previous contributor to Philosophy.William Max Knorpp, JrAssistant Professor at James Madison University in Virginia.Russell WahlProfessor of Philosophy at Idaho State University.Jonathan WestphalProfessor of Philosophy at Idaho State University.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48
Author(s):  
Michael J. Salevouris ◽  
Robert W. Brown ◽  
Linda Frey ◽  
Robert Lindsay ◽  
Arthur Q. Larson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The United States ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
University Of Montana ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Eliot Wigginton. Sometimes a Shining Moment: The Foxfire Experience-- Twenty Years in a High School Classroom. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press/ Doubleday, 1985. Pp. xiv, 438. Cloth, $19.95. Review by Philip Reed Rulon of Northern Arizona University. Eugene Kuzirian and Larry Madaras, eds. Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History. Vol. I: The Colonial Period to Reconstruction. Guilford , Connecticut: Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc., 1985. Pp. x, 255. Paper, $8.95. Review by Jayme A. Sokolow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Lois W. Banner. American Beauty. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Pp. ix, 369. Paper, $9.95. Review by Thomas J. Schlereth of the University of Notre Dame. Alan Heimert and Andrew Delbanco, eds. The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. xviii, 438. Cloth, $25.00. Review by Raymond C. Bailey of Northern Virginia Community College. Clarence L. Mohr. On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1986. Pp. xxi, 397. Cloth, $35.00. Review by Charles T. Banner-Haley of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, University of Rochester. Francis Paul Prucha. The Indians in American Society: From the Revolutionary War to the Present. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 127. Cloth, $15.95. Review by Darlene E. Fisher of New Trier Township High School, Winnetka, Il. Barry D. Karl. The Uneasy State: The United States from 1915 to 1945. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Pp. x, 257. Paper, $7.95; Robert D. Marcus and David Burner, eds. America Since 1945. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Fourth edition. Pp. viii, 408. Paper, $11.95. Review by David L. Nass of Southwest State University, Mn. Michael P. Sullivan. The Vietnam War: A Study in the Making of American Policy. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1985. Pp. 198. Cloth, $20.00. Review by Joseph L. Arbena of Clemson University. N. Ray Hiner and Joseph M. Hawes, eds. Growing Up In America: Children in Historical Perspective. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985. Pp. xxv, 310. Cloth, $27.50; Paper, $9.95. Review by Brian Boland of Lockport Central High School, Lockport, IL. Linda A. Pollock. Forgotten Children: Parent-Child Relations from 1500 to 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 334. Cloth, $49.50; Paper, $16.95. Review by Samuel E. Dicks of Emporia State University. Yahya Armajani and Thomas M. Ricks. Middle East: Past and Present. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1986. Second edition. Pp. xiv, 466. Cloth, $16.95. Review by Calvin H. Allen, Jr of The School of the Ozarks. Henry C. Boren. The Ancient World: An Historical Perspective. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1986. Pp. xx, 407. Paper, $22.95. Review by Arthur Q. Larson of Westmar College (Ret.) Geoffrey Treasure. The Making of Modern Europe, 1648-1780. London and New York: Methuen, 1985. Pp. xvii, 647. Cloth, $35.00; Paper, $16.95. Review by Robert Lindsay of the University of Montana. Alexander Rudhart. Twentieth Century Europe. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1986. Pp. xiv, 462. Paper, $22.95. Review by Linda Frey of the University of Montana. Jonathan Powis. Aristocracy. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984. Pp. ix, 110. Cloth, $24.95; Paper, $8.95. Review by Robert W. Brown of Pembroke State University. A. J. Youngson. The Prince and the Pretender: A Study in the Writing of History. Dover, New Hampshire: Croom Helm, Ltd., 1985. Pp. 270. Cloth, $29.00. Review Michael J. Salevouris of Webster University.

Graduate Education in the Time of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Richard Newton
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Education ◽  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Florida State University ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Semitic Languages ◽  
Divinity School ◽  
The University

“The Buzz” examines scholarly topics in light of present-day concerns and challenges. This edition centers on the unique challenges of graduate education as a result of the restrictions of COVID-19. Those contributing to this discussion include Sarah E. Fredericks (associate professor of environmental ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School), Steven Weitzman (Abraham M. Ellis professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages and literatures at the University of Pennsylvania), and Matthew Goff (professor of religion at Florida State University).

Kimball Young on Founders of the Chicago School

1988 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred B. Lindstrom ◽  
Ronald A. Hardert
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
American Sociological Association ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Arizona State University ◽  
Sociological Profession ◽  
The University

Editors' Introduction: In 1968, former president of the American Sociological Association Kimball Young (1893–1972) gave a seminar at Arizona State University that was attended by both editors. The sessions were taped, for it was Young's intention to organize the tapes into a book that would document his life as a sociologist, a book to be called Man in Transition. From these materials a first chapter has emerged that is Young's account of his experiences as a graduate student at the University of Chicago (1917–1919) as the Chicago School was evolving in the Department of Sociology. The editors' intention is to preserve the candid flavor of Young's storytelling. This candor sometimes has resulted in controversy as he cast his critical eye upon members of the sociological profession, a profession he participated in with remarkable vigor and enthusiasm.

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