Category: Academia
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The Recent Dennett-Plantinga A. P. A. Debate and the Question of Tone in Philosophy
This just over the transom (interspersed comments in blue by BV): I regularly follow your blog, and have for a couple of years now. I have considerable respect for you as both a philosopher and a communicator in general – you seem to get curt or impatient at times, but you still manage to be civil…
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Philosophy and Livelihood: Build a Slave!
One reader asks: How does an independent scholar get bread and butter on the table? Another inquires: How could one make a living in philosophy and the humanities besides being a professor?
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A Reader Wants to be a Professional Philosopher
From a reader's e-mail: "Now, I want to be a professional philosopher, period! It's not as if I kind of want to, or happened to be thinking about it." My young correspondent does not tell me what he means by 'professional philosopher,' or why he wants to attend graduate school, so I'll begin by making…
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Thinking of Graduate School in the Humanities?
This piece from The Chronicle of Higher Education is something you should read. People should know what they are in for. But if ideas are your passion, and you have talent, and you are willing to take risks and perhaps later on have to retool for the modern-day equivalent of lense-grinding, then go for it! (Hat…