Distinctively American Katherine Armstrong Stroud's discussions of these fundamental

Stroud's discussions of these fundamental questions are essential reading for anyone interested in the possibility of philosophical theories of knowledge

Had Chopin been born a decade earlier or a decade later

important advances in our knowledge of the texts

While the statesmanlike Ambrose ended his life as a pillar of the Western establishment

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Distinctively American Katherine Armstrong Stroud's discussions of these fundamentalThere is much change underway in American higher education. New technologies are challenging the teaching practices of yesterday, distance learning is lauded, and private firms offer to certify the educational credentials that businesses and others will deem satisfactory. In this new environment, America's liberal arts colleges propound a quite different set of values. Their continuing faith in the liberal arts not as the nineteenth century chose to