Have you ever taken a class in Philosophy?

nismaratwork · Jan 15, 2011

EnumaElish said:

I had always been partial to philosophy, in particular philosophy of science. So I read Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper when I was in college. But first, some background. In the seventies philosophy was still sort of hip (the post-war french had a big role in popularizing philosophy -- Brirain had the Beatles, France had the Existentialists, and for example "cutting edge" psychology [Lacan] and history of western institutions [Foucault] were overlapping with philosophy). In college, the soc. sci. and the humanities had the hippest and better-looking people while other departments had little of either, and their student population was significantly skewed toward "far too many men and too few women." Which, taken altogether, produced an interest in me toward soc. sci. & philosophy classes. I ended up taking grad-level Critique of Pure Reason. The prof. knew the stuff and was a very good teacher; she was serious (almost stern) and also a little paranoid, she thought my best-ever paper deserved only B because it was "written so well" that it could not have been "anything but plagiarism." I am not resentful for having taken the class, though.

bolded mine: Wow. Just wow, and DAMN, I'd love to read that paper.

Math Is Hard · Jan 15, 2011

EnumaElish said:

I ended up taking grad-level Critique of Pure Reason. The prof. knew the stuff and was a very good teacher; she was serious (almost stern) and also a little paranoid, she thought my best-ever paper deserved only B because it was "written so well" that it could not have been "anything but plagiarism." I am not resentful for having taken the class, though.

How peculiar. So did she say, "You Kant have written this"?

Sorry. That is truly awful. I would love to read your paper.

EnumaElish · Jan 15, 2011

Math Is Hard said:

How peculiar. So did she say, "You Kant have written this"?

nismaratwork said:

bolded mine: Wow. Just wow, and DAMN, I'd love to read that paper.

Math Is Hard said:

Sorry. That is truly awful. I would love to read your paper.

Thanks; you're very kind. I'll try to find it.

nismaratwork · Jan 15, 2011

EnumaElish said:

Thanks; you're very kind. I'll try to find it.

I appreciate it; I admit, my curiosity has been well and truly piqued.

Have you ever taken a class in Philosophy?

Have you ever taken a class in Philosophy?

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Have you ever taken a class in Philosophy?

Have you ever taken a class in Philosophy?

Yes

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