Hyper-Disciplined Minds: The Professionalization of Philosophy and the Death of Dissent. (Re-edited March 2018)

1. Recently I’ve been reading and thinking about an amazing book, Jeff Schmidt’s Disciplined Minds. It was published in 2000, so 16 years ago, and I was gobsmacked that I’d never heard about it until last month. Here’s a good, short summary of the book. For my purposes, what matters is Schmidt’s main thesis, which … [continue reading]