May 21, 2004

Can Philosophy Exist?

By JAMILAH EVELYN

Yes, and a New Jersey community college shows how to build a thriving department

It's a spring afternoon, a Friday, and most of the 14,000 students here at Bergen Community College, just outside New York City, have left for the weekend. But in a new classroom building on the campus perimeter, about two dozen students -- who include a young, tousle-haired man in a tie-dyed T-shirt, and a middle-aged woman who says she's here because she is passionate about humanity -- intensely

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