{"id":7211,"date":"2015-04-22T06:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/22\/dissertation-advice-on-the-occasion-of-kants-birthday-3\/"},"modified":"2015-04-22T06:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T06:22:00","slug":"dissertation-advice-on-the-occasion-of-kants-birthday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/22\/dissertation-advice-on-the-occasion-of-kants-birthday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissertation Advice on the Occasion of Kant’s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kant\"<\/a>Immanuel Kant was born on this day in 1724. He died in 1804. My dissertation on Kant, which now lies 37 years in the past, is dated 22 April 1978.  But if, per impossibile<\/em>, my present self were Doktorvater<\/em> to my self of 37 years ago, my doctoral thesis might not have been approved! As one's standards rise higher and higher with age and experience one becomes more and more reluctant to submit anything to evaluation let alone publication. One may scribble as before, and even more than before, but with less conviction that one's outpourings deserve being embalmed in printer's ink. (Herein lies a reason to blog.)<\/span><\/p>\n

So finish the bloody thing now while you are young and cocky and energetic.  Give yourself a year, say, do your absolute best and crank it out. Think of it as a union card. It might not get you a job but then it just might. Don't think of it as a magnum opus<\/em> or you will never finish. Get it done by age 30 and before accepting a full-time appointment. And all of this before getting married. That, in my opinion, is the optimal order. Dissertation before 30, marriage after 30.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Now raise your glass with me in a toast to Manny on this, his 291st birthday. Sapere aude!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Cartoon borrowed from site of <\/span>Slobodan Bob Zunjic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

 Related: Right and Wrong Order<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Immanuel Kant was born on this day in 1724. He died in 1804. My dissertation on Kant, which now lies 37 years in the past, is dated 22 April 1978.  But if, per impossibile, my present self were Doktorvater to my self of 37 years ago, my doctoral thesis might not have been approved! As … Continue reading “Dissertation Advice on the Occasion of Kant’s Birthday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kant","category-sage-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}