Philosophy and liberal learning. From: Queen's Quarterly | Date: March 22, 1997| Author: Murray Miles | COPYRIGHT 1997 Queen's Quarterly. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

MURRAY MILES teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Brock University. He is the author of numerous journal articles on the history of modern philosophy and of a monograph, Logik und Metaphysik bei Kant (Vittorio Klostermann Verlag, Frankfurt, 1978). His new book, Insight and Inference: Descartes' Founding Principle and Modern Philosophy (University of Toronto Press) will be published in 1998.

THE subject of this essay is philosophy, its place in the university, and t...

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