Intellectuals vs. activism

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Mon Aug 5 13:47:55 PDT 2002


Justin wrote:
> The situation in philosophy is more like that in econ than in soc. I
cannot
> think of a single major (public or private) philosophy dept that has
hired,
> much less tenured, a Marxist or a hard leftist in 15 years. Maybe more
than
> 20. My old adviser Peter Railton at Michigan may have been the last one,
and
> that was 1978.

Singer doesn't count?

-- Luke



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