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Increase in UF philosophy majors reflects national trend
—The Independent Florida Alligator (Apr 6)
Philosophy's growing popularity at UF is part of a nationwide trend...Faculty and students attribute the surge to a search for understanding in times of instability.
"I think people find that philosophy helps them in pretty much every skill you can learn," [Joe Licata, president of UF's Undergraduate Philosophy Society,] said. "Anything that you want to do,...you have a greater appreciation for the details about whatever it is that you're doing."
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In a New Generation of College Students, Many Opt for the Life Examined
—New York Times (Apr 4)
Philosophy is being embraced...by a new generation of college students who are drawing modern-day lessons from the age-old discipline as they try to make sense of their world...
"If I were to start again as an undergraduate, I would major in philosophy,” said Matthew Goldstein, the CUNY chancellor, who majored in mathematics and statistics. “I think that subject is really at the core of just about everything we do...[P]hilosophy is really the mother ship from which all of these disciplines grow."
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