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Question When did secular philosophy departments, as opposed to theology faculties, first appear in universities?

Accepted:
September 30, 2008

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I don't know (and my guess is that my co-panelists don't either.) That, I'm assuming is why it's taken so long for anyone to respond even with such a useless answer. But in defense of myself and my colleagues, most people who belong to a profession, I'd guess, have a relatively scant knowledge of the institutional history of the profession. For example: most physicists probably don't know when or where the first university physics department was established, most dentists probably don't know where the first dental school was, most insurance brokers probably don't know what the first insurance company was, and so on.

Question When did secular philosophy departments, as opposed to theology faculties, first appear in universities? Accepted:September 30, 2008

Question When did secular philosophy departments, as opposed to theology faculties, first appear in universities?

Accepted:
September 30, 2008