To Judge and to Justify : Profiles of the Academic Vocation
To Judge and to Justify : Profiles of the Academic Vocation
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Author(s): Fuller, Steve
ISBN No.: 9783031760167
Pages: xiii, 194
Year: 202410
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 193.19
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

This book argues that judging and justifying are the two skills that specifically require academic training. In the current times, where the value of a university degree is increasingly questioned, it's important to emphasize the significance of these skills. This volume addresses that universities are not necessarily stressing these skills, preferring instead to focus on the delivery of 'content' and the provision of 'credentials'. Its main focus is on articulating the positive case for the university's focus on judging and explaining as its core 'transferable skills.' It involves examining the historical and philosophical case for this claim, canvassing arguments made - and the example set -- by Plato, Francis Bacon, Immanuel Kant, William Whewell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul Feyerabend, Richard Rorty, John Rawls and Robert Nozick - as well as considering how they might be realized in today's world. This book extends the arguments in Fuller's recent book, Back to the University's Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt (Springer, 2023).


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