Scholar and University Professor

Chad Wellmon

1 article 2017

Chad Wellmon is a professor of German studies and the humanities at the University of Virginia. His scholarly work focuses on the history of knowledge, universities, and intellectual culture. He contributed a piece to The Weekly Standard in 2017 exploring themes of collective thought and inquiry.

Let Us Think Together

October 20, 2017 · intellectual freedom, Books, Books and Art

In 1637, René Descartes recounted a “fable” of how he came to think well. From his youth, he had read the books of the ancients, exercised his rhetorical skills, and observed the debates of philosophers and theologians. But in all this learning he found no rest or certainty, only endless disputes…