http://www.metafilter.com/tags/universityofnevadalasvegas Posts tagged with 'universityofnevadalasvegas' at MetaFilter. Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:20:55 -0800 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:20:55 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/102311/Budgetary%2DHemlock <a href="http://scientopia.org/blogs/ethicsandscience/2011/04/06/how-can-you-have-a-university-without-a-philosophy-department/">How can you have a university without a philosophy department?</a> In response to a<a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/mar/22/young-protesters-worried-about-future-hardly-spoil/"> 17% budget cut to higher education by Governor Sandoval</a>, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas is<a href="http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2011/03/univ-of-nevada-at-las-vegas-proposing-to-eliminate-entire-philosophy-program.html"> proposing the complete elimination</a> of its <a href="http://liberalarts.unlv.edu/Philosophy/">Philosophy Department</a>. The Mayor of Las Vegas<a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/apr/07/goodman-proposed-higher-ed-cuts-draconian/"> has called it a sin.</a> Others have said<a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/mar/29/philosophy-has-shaped-civilization/"> it seems like something out of an episode of <em>The Simpsons</em>.</a> Todd Edwin Jones, chair of the UNLV Philosophy Department, <a href="http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.2/todd_edwin_jones_nevada_philosophy.php">makes his case.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.102311 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:20:55 -0800 academia budgetcuts college hemlock highereducation lasvegas nevada philosophy universityofnevadalasvegas unlv Lutoslawski