According to the Times, 45 percent of the faculty members in Stanford’s main undergraduate division are clustered in the humanities, but they only teach 15 percent of the students. Harvard  has seen a 20 percent drop in humanitites majors in the past ten years.

In The New Yorker in August, the writer Adam Gopnik argued for the importance of English majors. The New Republic ran an article, “Science Is Not Your Enemy,” by Steven Pinker, a Harvard cognitive scientist. A few weeks later came a testy rebuttal, “Crimes Against Humanities” by Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, rejecting Dr. Pinker’s views on the ascendancy of science.

How do we convince students that a philosophy major has value?