BY: Brian Caulfield
Excerpted with permission. You can read the full article at the National Catholic Register Web site.
 Franciscan University professor of philosophy Dr. Paul Symington, editor of Quaestiones Disputatae |
With the high unemployment rate for new college graduates, it may not seem like the best time to launch a philosophy journal with a quaint Latin title and rarified references to Thomism, Neo-Platonism and phenomenology.
Yet Quaestiones Disputatae, the new journal at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, may represent just what some students need today to become competitive in a difficult job market, suggests editor Paul Symington.
After all, he points out, philosophy seeks answers to life’s most important questions and teaches a student to think in a disciplined, problem-solving manner. In a rapidly changing global market driven by technology and the latest innovation, the ability to frame an issue and think it through to a logical conclusion is a highly rated skill, said Symington, who is an associate professor of philosophy at the university. There is even evidence, he added, that philosophy majors score better on the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) for entrance into graduate school and that some employers — from technology companies to financial firms — look for students who can think “outside the box.”
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