March 11, 2005
Holding Pattern in the Humanities
Postdocs are becoming more common, but do they help new Ph.D.'s get jobs or merely keep the planes circling?Text: Different forms of recent postdoctoral appointments
On a recent Monday evening at Stanford University, Robert C. Jones stands at a green chalkboard under fluorescent lights and introduces a class of freshmen to one of philosophy's perennial dilemmas: If the universe is deterministic, is human freedom possible?
Brushing aside a curly lock of black hair from in
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