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Carbon

['Member']Joined: September 22, 2016 at 22:06Last active: June 24, 2017 at 03:03None discussions19 comments

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Jesus Christ and all his friends... this certainly took a different direction than I anticipated. Rather than responding to the three respondents indi...
March 10, 2017 at 01:31
Straight up: I don't really care what someone does in their spare time. If they want to read Kant, great. If they want to watch porn or videos of peop...
March 08, 2017 at 19:26
I think I gave you a little a bit of insight on academic goings-on a few months ago in a different post, but just noticed this thread. First off - in ...
February 17, 2017 at 21:23
Hey, if you're still looking I know a great PhD student currently wrapping up his dissertation at a top-tier school. Really bright Phil. Sci. student,...
February 04, 2017 at 15:14
I don't feel sullied or less genuine - I feel like I'd like to continue to buy groceries. Academics aren't professional "lovers of wisdom" - you'll ge...
January 23, 2017 at 05:16
No no, I'm sorry if I'm coming off as mean spirited or cynical. Seriously, I think forums like this are great! But for different reasons than academia...
January 23, 2017 at 00:59
Yeah, yeah. Save it for the forum gents! Don't say that stuff in a class setting because people like me don't want to read garbage papers like that in...
January 23, 2017 at 00:50
S/he is in a nursing program bro. No one beyond the newbie undergrads in philosophy gives a shit about the mystical connection with wisdom you think i...
January 22, 2017 at 19:18
Haha, yeah just roll with it and try to have some fun. A lot of those pre-rec phil. classes are mostly focused on reading classic works and little wri...
January 22, 2017 at 16:55
Yeah ignore whatever that Thorongil dude said. It's a fair question and you don't need to "bitten", want to "pursue wisdom", or have some weird magica...
January 22, 2017 at 16:46
Try 3-6 months plus RR (revise and resubmit), then still getting rejected by the EiC (Editor in Chief) and having to resubmit to a new journal. By the...
January 11, 2017 at 23:12
Jesus Christ boys, you realize that all three of you (I'm including that Benkei guy) are right, yeah? Hell, I re-read this little back and forth twice...
January 04, 2017 at 08:26
So just a recommendation to the original poster: go ahead and talk to your coffee group if they are receptive. Part of the "doing" of philosophy is ch...
December 30, 2016 at 08:54
Haha, that's pretty funny. But in all seriousness paper writing is still extraordinary difficult and submitting to high impact journals is kind of a m...
November 29, 2016 at 06:35
Here's a bit more of a practical answer: it has nothing to do with "sounding" smart but rather because we are told/taught that we have to publish and ...
November 29, 2016 at 00:54
Well hold your horses really quick because I want to address your previous comment. You wrote "Well, my conception of philosophy in practice has chang...
September 23, 2016 at 00:11
Oh don't take it as discouragement! Just be ready for it. I mean you'll know whether academia is for you pretty damn fast upon getting to grad school ...
September 22, 2016 at 23:23
Hate to be in my shoes? Nah. It's great. I love what I do. It's just what academia is man. Europe is about the same just more nepotism. Jobs for Ameri...
September 22, 2016 at 23:13
Made an account just to respond. Here's the deal.... As other people noted philosophy jobs are indeed few and far between. Statistically speaking most...
September 22, 2016 at 22:51