A Wall Street Giant Makes a $75 Million Bet on Academic Philosophy (Go Team Humanities!)

By artappraiser on Sat, 01/20/2018 - 7:57pm |

By Jennifer Schuessler @ NYTimes.com, Jan. 16

[....] Bill Miller, the value investor who famously beat the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index for 15 consecutive years (and whose faith in bank stocks later won a mocking depiction in the movie “The Big Short”), has donated $75 million to the philosophy department of Johns Hopkins University.

The gift, formally announced on Tuesday, appears to be the largest by far to a philosophy department anywhere in the world, the university said. It will allow the department, which will be renamed for Mr. Miller, to nearly double in size, to 22 full-time faculty members, while also supporting graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and new courses aimed at attracting undergraduates [.....]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/arts/bill-miller-75-million-gift-philosophy-johns-hopkins.html