The New York Times has an article about the recent surge of popularity of the Philosophy major for undergraduate students. As with most newspaper articles about things outside of its core competencies, it doesn't really get it right ("...classical texts, or what is known as armchair philosophy..."--huh?), but I guess that doesn't matter so much. Most philosophers would undoubtedly agree that more people doing philosophy is a good thing.
By the way, "debating the metaphysics of the Matrix" for an hour with a bunch of undergrads sounds like a terrible, terrible way to spend one's time.
Monday, April 7, 2008
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How is that terrible? That is exactly the kind of stuff we used to do, and exactly the kind of thing we regress to when any more than 2 115 males get together.
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