Neo-Existentialist French Literature

Critical perspectives on science: Arguments for a richer discussion on the scientific enterprise

“…The tension between the values of science education and the humanities remain topical even today and are manifest particularly in the field of academic education, where the disciplines of humanities feel threatened by the prominence of sciences. A vicious circle of closing down humanities departments and reduced student numbers are taking place both in the UK and US (Baker 2022; Dix 2018), a trend that might have been activated, and it is certainly not helped, by the statements of various politicians, mainly in the US (Marco Rubio called for more welders and fewer philosophers, since the former make more money (Rappeport 2015); or Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin asking for state universities to educate more electrical engineers and fewer French literature majors (Beam 2016)). In a professional world dominated by financial considerations, the humanities graduates are also less favoured by the fact that their average income at the point of entry into the working market are smaller than those of STEM graduates, by almost a third (Gray 2022), although the career prospects are as good as other professions (Carlson 2018).…”