<p>Peter is my current thesis advisor, and I am terrified of emailing him (even for the PIN so I can register), so kudos to vickious! I have had the opporunity of taking two of his courses, on the concept of political judgement and the idea of the state. As far as I am concerned, and notwithstanding the laundry list of other Reed-plusses, he is reason enough to at least strongly consider Reed.</p>
<p>Anyone who claims that Reed is not large enough to offer an intellectually diverse campus has not encountered the Faculty’s dean and former interim college President. This “philsopher dean” represents the mighty yet humble dedication to intellectual rigor fostered by Reed’s largely unparalelled faculty. </p>
<p>As to the specific concern regarding “continental” philsophy study at Reed, others have very adequately answered. I would add only (a) that every thinker inexorably comes back to Plato and Kant, regardless of their intellectual orientation and route of analysis, and (b) all upper-level courses in political thought, literary analysis, anthropology, and art history will offer more than enough oppprtunities to delve into various aspects of traditional “continential” thinkers.</p>