Phillip B. Secor |
Philip B. Secor, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Assistant
to the Dean
It seems strange to say that a professor in my field was so effective that I was inspired
to change fields. But that’s what happened. I had a number of courses with Dr.
Philip B. Secor, who taught my major, political science. He was young and was still making
up his mind what he believed, restlessly continuing to evaluate the very themes he was
teaching about. Even while he lectured and paced and quipped, he was wrestling with historic
questions, reconsidering, weighing possibilities—making up his mind, just as we
students were supposed to be doing. His involvement with ideas was personal enough that
I saw him more as a political philosopher than as a political scientist. And his process
of teaching while thinking and learning had an influence on me. In no small part because
of him, when I went on to get a master’s, it was not in political science but in
philosophy.
John Gibson ’63
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