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Thursday, January 05, 2006
SMART RESPONSE... ...to the following statement on an Inside Higher Ed comment thread: In my experience, most faculty members who don’t get a monograph completed in their probationary period did not deserve tenure in their PhD granting departments. ...from Michael Berube, who writes: My stars! This would mean, among other things, that almost no philosophers deserve tenure in PhD-granting philosophy departments. Taken together with some of the other skeptical remarks in this thread, I’m inclined to believe that many people think philosophers have poor scholarly standards, as well — all because they don’t require monographs for tenure. |