Michael Prinzing

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

@xphilosopher I'd been thinking about implications for those who do want to promote students' personal growth, rather than whether they should. Maybe you could say more about what you have in mind on the latter?

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

College is supposed to be a time of personal growth, and universities claim to provide character-building experiences for students. But do they? Juliette Ratchford and I investigated, using a sample of N ≈ 470k students from across the US.

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

Check out the paper, now in Higher Education: https://t.co/pTT8j4inxC

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

You can't choose students' majors for them, but you can prioritize mentorship, encourage clubs and other orgs, and incorporate discussion of difficult issues into curricula. Our findings suggest each of these could encourage students’ character growth.

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[Wake Forest News @WakeForestNews]

“There has been tons of research on how intellectual humility might help people to think better...but there has been almost none on how intellectual humility might impact a person’s well-being.”

#WFU research scholar Michael Prinzing on exploring virtue ethics & mental health. 🧠✨
https://t.co/p4eJNxguhl

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

My coauthors and I argue that this highlights the importance of the distinction between these two forms of IH and has important implications for its status as an intellectual virtue as well as for efforts to encourage people to cultivate IH.
https://t.co/UeHfWh1Rva

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

People are really excited about the benefits of intellectual humility. But, even if IH leads to good thinking, is it good *for* you? After all, an inflated sense of self feels good! It turns out that the answer may depend on what precisely "intellectual humility" refers to.

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

It turns out that the latter is consistently associated with better well-being (cross-sectionally, within and between persons, and in longitudinal changes over 2 years), whereas the latter is not. In fact, it's actually associated with *worse* well-being.

[The Program for Leadership and Character @character_wfu]

Something big is happening at @WakeForest, and at colleges and universities across the country.

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

The official version is now up on the journal's website: https://t.co/l6WqJG8XwZ

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

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.

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

The paper (forthcoming in Synthese) is available on PhilPapers!
https://t.co/nWEflTHr1T

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

@jalejandrofdezc That seems right. Though I suppose you could argue that superficial engagement with empirical evidence is at least moving in the right direction. And if others recognize and criticize one's superficiality, then that could nudge one towards more serious engagement.

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

One of these roles is on the Research Team for the Educating Character Initiative! We're looking for someone with empirical expertise who wants to write papers with me about character development!

[Michael Lamb @KMLamb]

🚀 We're hiring @character_wfu @WakeForest! With funds from a new grant to build communities of impact around character in higher education, we're searching for several administrative and research positions. The link is below!
https://t.co/9YGLSWBTES

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

@jalejandrofdezc I'm not sure! They both seem bad, honestly. Do you have a sense of which one might be worse in general?

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

@FriedrichHayek Oh, of course! But the "linguistic turn" in philosophy refers specifically to a movement in which philosophers stopped asking questions about the world and focused instead of questions about language, and tried to answer them using a priori methods.

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

@FriedrichHayek @MaxNoichl The definition and other methodological details are in the paper (see especially the appendix), but basically it's sources that primarily report the results of scientific research or analyses of quantitative data, including scientific journals, handbooks, etc.

[Michael Prinzing @M_Prinzing]

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