The Approaching Disintegration of Academia

Re:The Approaching Disintegration of Academia by anm89 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @08:21PM (#34702773)

Universities should just pick camps and clearly proclaim which side they are on. If you want to do critical theory studies at a university which doesn't believe in objective truth you pick a University on that side.

If you want to study areospace engineering, or biology you go to one of the schools on team objective truth exists.

Or I guess you could do an electrical engineering at the objective truth doesn't exist university although I have a feeling enrollment might not be that high.

This process would be self correcting based on the quality of output of those universities over time.

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Re:The Approaching Disintegration of Academia by ttyprintk on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:27PM (#34703740)

So, with “disintegration” in the title, that’s what the author is expecting. Some departments which used to have a profitable relationship with hungry philosophers might miniaturize a philosophy organelle. Quantum physics, music and art, for example. I think this is what he means by returning to pre-Enlightenment.

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Re:The Approaching Disintegration of Academia by yarg on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:36PM (#34703799)

MIT has done just that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34132152.

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Re:The Approaching Disintegration of Academia by alsaaro on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:42PM (#34703832)

At an academic symposium somewhere someone said something silly, now we must bifurcate our universities; perhaps our queer theorist is right, objectivity has truly been deconstructed.

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