Interdisciplinarity
TagThe Counterfeiting of the Humanities
In 2023, I attended an annual conference on the humanities. In a conversation over lunch, a program manager for a state humanities council, whose job is to review grant applications for humanities projects in their state, asked me what I did. After I replied that I was a philosophy professor, she responded, “Oh, I didn’t know that philosophy was a humanities .” (mor..
Philosophy Department Survival Strategies: Interdepartmental Cooperation on Campus
This is the third installment in the occasional series, Philosophy Department Survival Strategies. In this post, our topic is about philosophers working with members of other departments at their university or college.