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<3 Research and teaching <3

13-Jan-09

I’ve been reading the comments on this post at Brian Leiter’s blog (via Sympoze). It’s been exhausting on several levels. If you read a few of the comments for yourself, I think you’ll understand why. Of particular interest to me is the explicit invocation (here and here, among other places) of the distinction between research [...]

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Blatz, venison, and the dreaded “What do you do for a living” question

25-Dec-08

It’s always been tough explaining to my family what I do. ‘Student’ they understand; ‘graduate student’ is easy enough by extension. ‘Philosophy’ is hit-and-miss. While the folk (i.e. my folks) has an sense that philosophy involves far-out, abstract thinking (and maybe a pipe and leather elbow patches), it’s harder to grasp what it means to [...]

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