The Jerks of Academe
Who knows? You might be one yourself.
"This morning you probably didn’t look in the mirror and ask, “Am I a jerk?” And if you did, I wouldn’t believe your answer. Jerks usually don’t know that they are jerks.
Jerks mostly travel in disguise, even from themselves. But the rising tide (or is it just the increasing visibility?) of scandal, grisly politics, bureaucratic obstructionism, and toxic advising in academe reveals the urgent need of a good wildlife guide by which to identify the varieties of academic jerk. [....]"
Eric Schwitzgebel is a professor of philosophy at University of California at Riverside and author of A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures (MIT Press, 2019).
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