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From: krogers@UDel.Edu
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To: Beth Morling; krogers@UDel.Edu;
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Cc: Beth Morling
Subject: Re: P
Dear Prof. Morling,
(I do not speak for my chair here, just for myself.) I am dismayed at the
committee's decision. I am not sure how you define "real world".
Someone studying law might go to a law office for an internship, and I assume
that would count as a "real world" experience because there, instead
of just studying law, you work with real lawyers who are actually practicing
law. But the law office is a very distinct culture and not part of most
people's "real world". The senior seminar is relevantly similar in
that in the course the students participate with the professional philosopher
working on his or her research. Now it is true that, unlike with most other
professionals, almost all professional philosophers live and work at
universities. If the "real world" is, by definition, outside of a
university, then there is no "real world" where professional
philosophy is done.
But professional philosophy has an enormous impact on the so-called "real
world". To take an example close to my heart, recently pop philosophy --
to be distinguished from PROF
It seems to me to do a disservice to our majors to insist that they take a DLE
course, but then to argue that intensive training in the actual practice of
professional philosophy -- work with a real philosopher on an ongoing research
project -- cannot count because it is not "in the real world".
I do hope your committee will reconsider.
Let me know if you have further questions that I might be able to answer.
Thank you for your time,
Kate Rogers