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The Rough Ground: Contents
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Philosophy from Outside Academia. The posts on this blog can divided into the following categories. In each category the posts are listed in the order they were written. Yes, I was addicted to "Leiter Reports". What is a Dissertation? Stepping into the Future. The Value of Sharing Experiences. Institutional Structures of Academic Philosophy. Function of the Analytic-Continental Divide. The Barbarians at the Gates". Out of the Fly Bottle. Silence at the Top. What is Academic Philosophy? Wolff's Top 25 List.
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The Rough Ground: February 2015
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Philosophy from Outside Academia. February 24, 2015. Wittgensteins philosophy can be divided into three parts: . The Problem, the Cause. Is a view about what is wrong with much of contemporary philosophy, and which has its roots in the Early Modern period. The problem can be stated simply: It is the attempt to understand human life in terms of the categories of the natural sciences, i.e. the new sciences as discovered in the 16th and 17th centuries. Be applicable (Why is it raining? Seeks to explain how ...
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The Rough Ground: March 2015
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Philosophy from Outside Academia. March 8, 2015. As I realize that while writing this blog I am on the outskirts of the city, and so within a space which is still oriented towards the city, I feel again the pull to explore new lands beyond the city. The pull which started my movement out of the city four years ago. Out there is where my future, and this has been a stop along the way. Why has it been so hard for me to leave the city? Why have I not gotten beyond the outskirts even in these past few years?
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The Rough Ground: Academic Writing
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Philosophy from Outside Academia. March 1, 2015. A few things I wrote as a graduate student:. Action Without Inner Representations. An essay I presented at the dissertation workshop at Harvard, though this essay was not part of my thesis. At the time I was reading parts of Joseph Campbell's The Masks of God. And I tried to connect for myself that reading with my education. Toward a Direct Realism of Communication. On Dreyfus and Kelly on Dennett. This was an email I wrote to Sean Kelly about the essay.
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The Rough Ground: Beyond the City
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Philosophy from Outside Academia. March 8, 2015. As I realize that while writing this blog I am on the outskirts of the city, and so within a space which is still oriented towards the city, I feel again the pull to explore new lands beyond the city. The pull which started my movement out of the city four years ago. Out there is where my future, and this has been a stop along the way. Why has it been so hard for me to leave the city? Why have I not gotten beyond the outskirts even in these past few years?
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The Rough Ground: December 2014
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Philosophy from Outside Academia. December 30, 2014. My introduction to philosophy was through conversations with my father about. During my high school years we would have conversations about the nature of the self, consciousness, dharma, mind and body, science and religion, the meaning of life, and so on. When I started studying philosophy academically in college, a basic mode of life started to develop for me, something analogous to W.E.B. DuBois idea of. Is a different kind of text than Platos. In cl...
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The Rough Ground: What is a Liberal Arts College?
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Philosophy from Outside Academia. March 7, 2015. What is a Liberal Arts College? At Bryn Mawr I came to know students who chose to come there instead of going to a big university, either public or private. These students came with a contrast in mind between a liberal arts college and a professionalized university . Call this the contrast. I was in the grip of the contrast, and hoped it was true. In any case, what would it mean to teach what I wanted? One possibility was to be like Paul Grobstein. In the ...
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The Rough Ground: Grading
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Philosophy from Outside Academia. March 5, 2015. What I enjoyed the most being a professor was teaching. Being in the classroom, engaging with the students, pursuing collaboratively ideas and lines of argument, seeing the students discover their voices and doing what I could to help with that. There are three aspects to this worry. A) What criteria am I using to grade? B) What justifies the criteria? And C) Can that criteria really be applied neutrally to all the students in the class? No, because there ...
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The Rough Ground: May 2015
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Philosophy from Outside Academia. May 16, 2015. I have started a new blog: In Search of an Ideal. In "The Rough Ground" I tried to express some of my experiences in academic philosophy, and think about some structural features of academia. This blog, like its predecessor "Philosophy in Everyday Life", was therefore mostly critical and was stating some of the problems. What, though, are the solutions? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). In Search of an Ideal. Philosophy in Everyday Life.
