Intellectuals vs. activism

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Mon Aug 5 20:40:44 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

He wasn't hired by the philosophy dept. He's also not a hard leftist. jks

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