This IHE article discusses my recent work with @mvazquez.bsky.social about how students' politics change during college. Simply put, independently of political *beliefs* students seem to adopt an "educated liberal" *identity.*
I suspect this has to do with the demise of the "linguistic turn," which in my view was a deviation from the mainstream of philosophical tradition. But, whatever explains the historical trend, clearly these days philosophy is *not* a purely a priori discipline.
Lots of people think philosophy is an "armchair" discipline in which empirical evidence is largely irrelevant. But, humorously, this idea is contradicted by the empirical data. Looking at records from prestigous, generalist philosophy journals, I found something striking.
We think these results, now published in American Psychologist, highlight a need for more theorizing and tests of popular claims about how to cultivate this much-needed trait.
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