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Article: Promoting academic judgment.(Letter to the editor)
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- July 1, 2006
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Elizabeth Minnich's "Between Impartiality and Bias: On the Importance of Judgment" (Change, May/June 2006) is an important step toward bringing an understanding of discipline-based knowledge to bear on public policy. Her position is consistent with the efforts of Phi Beta Kappa to assert the importance of the liberal arts and sciences (as disciplines, both singly and in interdisciplinary dialogue) in equipping educated people to deliberate well. But two points could be clearer.
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