...Allan Janik [email protected] David Edmonds , The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2020 ), 315 + xvi pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 It is not unusual to speculate...

...Stanley N. Katz William M. Chace, 100 Semesters: My Adventures as Student, Professor, and University President, and What I Learned Along the Way (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), 368 pp. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting...

...William M. Chace Michèle Lamont, How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 330 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Sarah McNamer, Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval...

... the process by which one teacher put together an online course. Several essays articulate the doubts that professors sometimes feel about their task—doubts that may lead to moving connections with students, who also feel doubt. The introduction suggests that descriptions of specific classroom experiences...

... Seminar” component of the “Making and Knowing Project,” under the direction of Professor Pamela Smith, each was responsible for reconstructing, annotating, and contextualizing historical recipes from a sixteenth-century French manuscript. Working both in and beyond their chemistry lab, the authors reflect...

..., at their own pace; contact their teaching assistants and the professor when it suits them; and enjoy the advantage of a relatively seamless multimedia presentation. The quality of the students’ work, the author finds, is the same as in a bricks-and-mortar course, and the students themselves express enthusiasm...

...Steve Fuller Abstract Richard Rorty is easily cast as the intellectual godfather of our post-truth condition. But unlike Nicholas Gaskill, whose article in Common Knowledge 28, no. 3, has engendered a continuing symposium in the journal, Professor Fuller sees Rorty's role as being to his credit...

... has nothing to do with their adversarial relations. The effort of this article is to show that, even before postmodernism was heard of, nationalist thinkers such as Rabbi A. I. H. Kook (1865 – 1935), Rabbi M. A. Amiel (1883 – 1946), Rabbi Abraham Hazan (1920 – 2003), and Professor André Neher (1914...

... academic administrators take toward professors more interested in their disciplines than in their employer? What is the fate of the underfunded humanities? What can be done about the stunning increase in tuition prices? Transfixed by Terman's definition of eminence, Cole ignores these difficult realities...

... by dissident colleagues (for instance, Donald Davie in Purity of Diction in English Verse ) to write exclusively didactic poetry, and to write it with the logical, linear clarity and straightforward syntax of rigorous yet easily followed argumentative prose. In the triumphalist variant, professors...

...Ramona Naddaff; Katharine Wallerstein Written for a series of case studies titled “In the Humanities Classroom,” this contribution describes an undergraduate course on ancient rhetoric at Berkeley, in which Professor Ramona Naddaff was accused by a male student of demeaning women during a lecture...

...Douglas Mao In a dialogue whose precedents include Oscar Wilde's “Critic as Artist,” two fictional professors of English take up the relationship between aestheticism and quietism. Their conversation begins with a debate on the necessity of treating sociopolitical contexts when teaching literature...

... 2013 Notes on Contributors Charles Altieri is Stageberg Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include The Particu- lars...

... and is associate editor of Common Knowledge for philosophy and politics. His monograph-­length article “The Cloud of Knowing: Blurring the Difference with China” appeared in the Fall 2011 issue. Frank Ankersmit is emeritus professor of intellectual history and philosophy of history at Groningen University...

...- versity of Lisbon, writes on amateurs, inseparability, and family. David Bellos is professor of French, Italian, and comparative literature at Princeton Univer- sity and a recipient of the Prix Goncourt de la Bibliographie and the Man Booker Interna- tional...

... and Civilization, and Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience. Wayne Andersen, painter, corporate art consultant, and architect of the King Khaled Mosque in Riyadh, is professor emeritus of art and architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among his many books are German...

... 2008 Notes on Contributors Barry Allen is professor of philosophy at McMaster University. He is the author of Truth in Philosophy, Knowledge and Civilization, and (forthcoming) Artifice and Design: Art and Technol- ogy in Human Existence...

... Martial Arts; and Vanishing into Things: Knowledge in Chinese Tradition. He teaches philosophy at McMaster University. Judith Beyer, junior professor of anthropology at the University of Konstanz, is coauthor of Kirgistan, a photoethnography, and Baiyz apa zhashoo tarzhymaly (The Life History...

... 2016 Notes on Contributors Sir John Boardman is Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology emeritus at Oxford University and a fellow of the British Academy, which awarded him the Kenyon Medal in 1995. Editor...

... of Common Knowledge for philosophy and politics. His monograph-­length article “The Cloud of Knowing: Blurring the Difference with China” appeared in the Fall 2011 issue. Frank Ankersmit is emeritus professor of intellectual history and philosophy of history...