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  1. Nozick, “What is Wisdom and Why do Philosophers Love it So?”, in his The Examined Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989), p. 267.

  2. “Wisdom,” American Philosophical Quarterly 20.3 (1983), p. 277.

  3. Nozick, op. cit., p. 273.

  4. Similar points are made in Nozick, op. cit., pp. 272–273.

  5. Kekes, op.cit., p. 280.

  6. “Values Education,” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education, edited by Harvey Siegel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) p. 261.

  7. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970, Second Edition).

  8. Since the mid-1980s, sociologists of science have sought to understand the mechanisms of consensus-formation in science. For a recent addition to this literature, see Uri Shwed and Peter S. Bearman, “The Temporal Structure of Scientific Consensus Formation,” American Sociological Review 75.6 (2010), 817–840.

  9. For more on dissidents in science (and the questions it raises for testimony from science), see Ward E. Jones, “Dissident Versus Loyalist: Which Scientists Should We Trust?”, Journal of Value Inquiry 36:4 (2002), pp. 511–520.

  10. The claim I am making here is neutral as to whether the student must have “positive reason” to believe that which her lecturer tells her is true. The “reductionist” says that she must do so (see, e.g., Elizabeth Fricker, “Against Gullibility,” in B. K. Malital & A. Chakrabarti (eds.) Knowing from Words (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994)), while the “non-reductionist” denies this (see, e.g., John McDowell, “Knowledge by Hearsay”, also in Malital and Chakrabarti, op. cit.).

  11. Kuhn, op.cit., “Postscript,” Section 6.

  12. The preceding portrait of the humanities raises the question of how the humanities can be seen as an endeavour of discovering what the world is like. This is a complicated question, one which I am currently pursuing in a book-length treatment, provisionally entitled Dissensus and the Value of Philosophy.

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Jones, W.E. Wisdom as an Aim of Higher Education. J Value Inquiry 49, 1–15 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-014-9443-z

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