Www.ius.edu/philosophy/pdf/whystudyphilosophy.pdf. Www.jrlauper.com/teach/docs/beginners/pourquoi.pdf. Philipp Keller - enseignement. Cette page n'exprime que les opinions personelles de l'auteur et n'aspire à aucune forme d'autorité officielle.
Je reprends plusieurs idées de Jim Pryor (Princeton) et des idées et des formulations de Michel Seymour (Montréal). Pourquoi étudier la philosophie ? Avant tout, l'étude de la philosophie est un plaisir en soi. Les philosophes font la philosophie parce qu'ils adorent faire cela. S'il vous arrive de devoir justifier votre choix (amis, familles, subsides, politiciens), voilà ce que vous pouvez dire: La philosophie est la plus ancienne science et la mère de toutes les autres. Comment étudier la philosophie ? Le plus important dans l'étude de la philosophie est qu'on apprenne à penser.
La deuxième chose importante est qu'on ait un goût pour la bonne philosophie. La troisième chose importante est de développer une passion pour plusieurs des champs de la philosophie, se laissant guider par d'excellentes livres. Voilà quelques liens utiles: Famous Philosophy Majors. Why study philosophy. The Times: Opinion: August 15, 1998 Philosophy is a quintessentially modern discipline For Immanuel Kant, the Enlightenment could be captured in two small words: sapere aude - "dare to think".
When 3,500 individuals professionally devoted to this proposition are gathered under one roof, as happened at the 20th World Congress of Philosophy in Boston this week, the effect may be more of Babel than of 18th-century discourse. Modern philosophy speaks a bewildering variety of languages, from analytic logic to existentialism, poststructuralism, semiotics and the wilder shores of ecofeminism, and there is a fair degree of apartheid between its practitioners. Hence the temptation to view the discipline as too rarefied and "academic" for mere mortals. The great virtue of philosophy is that it teaches not what to think, but how to think. It can also be studied at many levels. Wilfrid Laurier University - Faculty of Arts - Philosophy - About Philosophy - How Does Philosophy Relate to My Career? People today often emphasize "marketability" when they talk about a university education.
It would be a mistake to think that this is -- or should be -- all there is to university, but prospective students (and their parents) may still wonder how philosophy relates to marketability. If marketability means learning what will make you an attractive candidate for employment, then philosophy has a great deal to offer. There is no doubt that an education in business, commerce, finance, marketing, economics, etc., provide immediate skills and practical tools for finding entry-level employment.
Philosophy does not emphasize such skills but it provides an ideal atmosphere in which one can develop the more basic abilities on which they depend. Philosophy is irrelevant to marketability only if learning how to think, analyze, and communicate ideas clearly is inapplicable to workaday life. Why might someone like Mintzberg call for a return to basics? Philosophers Find the Degree Pays Off in Life And in Work. 26 December 1997 | New York Times by CAROL MARIE CROPPER CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – What can you do with a philosophy degree?
In an age of M.B.A.’s and computer scientists, more than 4,000 American college students graduate each year with a bachelor’s degree in the ancient discipline. Sometimes their parents and friends wonder what will happen to them. One thing is certain: Not many of them will go on to make a living as philosophers. Yet students majoring in philosophy – the study of the principles underlying conduct, thought and knowledge – seem passionately unconcerned. The rise in stock of philosophy graduates. "A degree in philosophy?
What are you going to do with that then? " Philosophy students will tell you they've been asked this question more times than they care to remember. "The response people seem to want is a cheery shrug and a jokey 'don't know'," says Joe Cunningham, 20, a final-year philosophy undergraduate at Heythrop College, University of London.
A more accurate comeback, according to the latest statistics, is "just about anything I want". Figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show philosophy graduates, once derided as unemployable layabouts, are in growing demand from employers. It is in the fields of finance, property development, health, social work and the nebulous category of "business" that those versed in Plato and Kant are most sought after. The Higher Education Careers Services Unit (Hecsu), which also collates data of this kind, agrees philosophers are finding it easier to secure work. Open mind Blackburn can take some credit. Course design. Learn Philosophy. The questions are ripped from the daily head-lines: Should illegal immigrants be barred from enrolling in public universities?
Should courts declare surreptitiously gathered DNA off limits as legal evidence? No, it's not another spinoff of Law & Order. It's Ethics Bowl, an increasingly popular intercollegiate tourna-ment where competing teams reason their way through thorny case histories. The winners are judged not on the sound and fury of their responses but on the thoroughness of their consideration and understanding of differing points of view. In a New Generation of College Students, Many Opt for the Life Examined.