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- What does Goldman Sachs want in a coder? For them to have studied philosophy https://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-wants-engineers-liberal-arts-degrees-philosophy-psychology-2024-4 17 comments
- "Ancient philosophy was written by men, but the male thinkers we study philosophized with women" -Peter Adamson (KCL) on women in ancient philosophy https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/07/where-are-all-women-ancient-philosophy 7 comments philosophy
- Marcus Lattimore On Studying Philosophy, Overcoming A Horrific Career-Ending Injury, and Finding His True Calling https://dailystoic.com/marcus-lattimore-interview/ 19 comments nfl
- How Lachlan Murdoch Went From Studying Philosophy at Princeton to Exploiting White Nationalism at Fox News https://theintercept.com/2019/03/30/lachlan-murdoch-fox-news/ 33 comments politics
- How to Begin Studying the Philosophy of Mathematics? https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/alxvjp/how_to_begin_studying_the_philosophy_of/ 20 comments math
- How to study philosophy as an amateur [Existential Comics] http://existentialcomics.com/blog/1/how_to_study_philosophy_as_an_amateur 7 comments philosophy
- How Studying Philosophy Can Help You Excel at Work and Life in General https://www.samwoolfe.com/2018/03/how-studying-philosophy-can-help-you-excel-in-your-work-and-life-in-general.html 7 comments philosophy
- Study Philosophy to Improve Thinking—A Case of False Advertising? https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/6ksol2/study_philosophy_to_improve_thinkinga_case_of/ 3 comments philosophy
- Study finds that many national journalists have views of democracy that are different than many Americans. The researchers believe this difference in philosophy might be contributing to a disconnect between Americans and the media. http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2017/0227-new-study-identifies-disconnect-between-media-and-public/ 21 comments science
- How to Study Philosophy as an Amateur http://existentialcomics.com/blog 196 comments philosophy
- Pathways to Philosophy - How-to-do-it study guide http://www.philosophypathways.com/guide/index.html 14 comments philosophy
- Routledge Gives Free Access to 6,000 eBooks in June (Including Philosophy & Cultural Studies Texts) http://www.openculture.com/2014/06/routledge-gives-free-access-to-6000-ebooks-in-june.html 22 comments philosophy
- Should Studying Philosophy Change Us? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-barer/should-studying-philosoph_b_4409447.html 29 comments philosophy
- Why Are Hundreds of Harvard Students Studying Ancient Chinese Philosophy? http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/why-are-hundreds-of-harvard-students-studying-ancient-chinese-philosophy/280356/ 7 comments philosophy
- [NY Times] Why and how scientists can benefit from studying philosophy http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/sciences-humanities-gap/ 26 comments philosophy
- The Management Myth: If you want to succeed in business, don’t get an M.B.A. Study philosophy http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/06/the-management-myth/4883/ 14 comments philosophy
- Photo Essay: "Why (did I choose to study) Philosophy?" http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/01/opinion/20101101_stone_profile.html 9 comments philosophy
- I think everyone who is interested in Philosophy should study Neuropsychology too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Dam%C3%A1sio 73 comments philosophy
- Most of management theory is inane. If you want to succeed in business, don’t get an M.B.A. Study philosophy instead http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2006/06/the-management-myth/4883/ 46 comments philosophy
- On The Dangers Of Studying Philosophy http://ponderabout.com/archives/2562/on_the_dangers_of_studying_philosophy.aspx 83 comments philosophy
- For people who's thinking about graduate study in philosophy [pdf] http://philosophy.ucsd.edu/faculty/dbrink/graduatestudy.pdf 22 comments philosophy
- North Carolina State University Study, co-authored by the Assistant Professor of Philosophy, examines the claims that Neuroscience had supposedly disproven “Free Will” https://neurosciencenews.com/free-will-neuroscience-8618/ 363 comments philosophy
- Study Shows That Teaching Young Kids Philosophy Improves Their Academic Performance, Making Them Better at Reading & Math http://godfatherweb.com/teaching-young-kids-philosophy-improves-their-academic-performance/ 795 comments philosophy
- Philosophy and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - a study of philosophy through pop culture https://philosophynow.org/issues/104/philosophy_and_the_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galaxy_edited_by_nicholas_joll 35 comments philosophy
- Why Study Philosophy? USC compiles a couple reasons, with statistical support. http://dornsife.usc.edu/phil/undergraduate/ 78 comments philosophy
- More and more young people are choosing to study philosophy. Why, at a time when job prospects are so important, are teenagers turning to Plato, Kant and Hume? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/why-students-are-turning-to-philosophy-476629.html 129 comments philosophy
- Students' philosophy essays significantly improved by a logic visualization technique relative to the control group that studied the same texts without using this technique. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-018-0038-5 33 comments philosophy
- Philosophy Classes Can Affect Real-World Behavior, Study Finds http://today.ku.edu/2019/07/11/study-finds-philosophy-classes-can-affect-real-world-behavior-2 247 comments philosophy
- Saudi students to start studying philosophy, a subject that was banned for decades https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181215-saudi-students-to-study-philosophy-lifting-ban/ 87 comments worldnews
- Studying philosophy cultivates a healthy scepticism about the moral opinions, political and scientific concepts with which we are daily bombarded. It teaches one to detect ‘higher forms of nonsense' | Peter Hacker https://iainews.iai.tv/articles/why-study-philosophy-auid-289?access=all?utmsource=reddit3 265 comments philosophy
- "Popularizing marginal figures sheds light on the mainstream. It can also show us alternative ways of doing philosophy" -Peter Adamson (LMU) on the value of studying minor figures in the history of philosophy. http://dailynous.com/2020/07/06/margins-philosophy-guest-post-peter-adamson/ 16 comments philosophy
- UC Riverside philosophy professor John Martin Fischer has received a $5-million grant to study immortality, but don't expect any ghost hunting or seances. http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-adv-immortality-20130313,0,2430727,full.story 82 comments philosophy
- “The study of philosophy cultivates a healthy scepticism about moral opinions, political arguments and economic reasoning… It teaches one to detect ‘higher forms of nonsense’, to identify humbug, to weed out hypocrisy, and to spot invalid reasoning.” – Peter Hacker https://iai.tv/articles/why-study-philosophy-auid-289&utm_source=reddit&_auid=2020 204 comments philosophy
- Texas is at it again: Texas school board is holding hearings on changes to its social studies curriculum that would portray conservatives in a more positive light, emphasize the role of Christianity in American history and include Republican political philosophies in textbooks. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/us/politics/11texas.html?partner=rss&emc=rss 41 comments politics
- A study involving nearly 3,000 primary-school students showed that learning philosophy at an early age can improve children’s social and communication skills, teamwork, resilience, and ability to empathize with others. https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/news/item/?itemno=31088 652 comments science
- A study involving nearly 3,000 primary-school students showed that learning philosophy at an early age can improve children’s social and communication skills, teamwork, resilience, and ability to empathize with others. https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/news/item/?itemno=31088 12 comments philosophy
- A study involving nearly 3,000 primary-school students showed that learning philosophy at an early age can improve children’s social and communication skills, team work, resilience, and ability to empathise with others. https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/news/item/?itemno=31088 86 comments science
- A study involving nearly 3,000 primary-school students showed that learning philosophy at an early age can improve children’s social and communication skills, team work, resilience, and ability to empathise with others. https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/news/item/?itemno=31088 685 comments philosophy
- Hi /r/Politics, I’m Professor Sarah Burns from RIT’s Political Science department. I study political philosophy, American history, liberalism, constitutionalism, and foreign policy. Ask me anything about Trump’s America. https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/6a7n4q/hi_rpolitics_im_professor_sarah_burns_from_rits/ 640 comments politics
- Science AMA Series: I’m Prof Sir Colin Blakemore, Professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, I research human perception and how our brains put together information, AMA https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Colin_Blakemore/publications 236 comments science