Barry Lam's inspiration to introduce philosophy into our national conversation is brilliant, exciting and a beacon of hope for the liberal arts. It is an unexpected, and thrilling, blip in the torrent of shallow and "selfie" stuff overloading our futuristic communication systems. Another Princeton spectacular was the introduction of the course in epistemology, without which, as I see it, philosophy and even science are incomplete.
Barry Lam's inspiration to introduce philosophy into our national conversation is brilliant, exciting and a beacon of hope for the liberal arts. It is an unexpected, and thrilling, blip in the torrent of shallow and "selfie" stuff overloading our futuristic communication systems. Another Princeton spectacular was the introduction of the course in epistemology, without which, as I see it, philosophy and even science are incomplete.