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- From: tp0x+@cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Price)
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- Subject: Re: Schools, philosophy of science, epistemology
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- Date: 12 Jan 93 21:36:26 GMT
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- >> Ah, but do you ask them why they want to get a graduate degree in
- >> philosophy? I would caution all and sundry that your motives had best not
- >> include making a living as a philosopher.
- >
- >Well, even if I forget to give that particular speech, the APA won't. It
- >still asks graduate departments to send to all applicants that dreary &
- >discouraging form letter that says, roughly, "You think you're gonna get a
- >JOB in philosophy? HA Ha ha hahahahahahahahahahaha......" So if a student
- >applies to 10 schools, 10 copies of that letter show up. Blah! I'm
- >surprised ANYONE ever
- >decides to go to grad school in philosophy.
- >
- > For every philosophy Ph.D. who is
- >> successful at doing this (like our very own Dr. Ruth), there are dozens who
- >> must resign themselves to lesser lives, toiling among the masses (such as
- >> your humble correspondent).
-
- I invite email or posts on the following topic:
- philosophy students (with or without degrees, graduate or undergraduate)
- who drop out and live the frugal lifestyle of the classical philosophers --
- or something vaguely similar. Surely the PhD's on this newsgroup have
- respected friends, former colleagues and students or fellow-students, who
- refused "resignation" to any particular social niche and went away to sleep
- on the beach at Key Largo, reading Putnam and watching the sun set, or started
- a commune/homestead/truck farm in New Mexico, or something. I am eager to hear
- of anyone who has done such a thing. How do you know them, and how are
- they doing?
-
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- Tom Price | tp0x@cs.cmu.edu | Free will? What free will?
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