“The public life of liberal Hollywood comprises a kind of dictatorship of good intentions, a social contract in which actual and irreconcilable disagreement is as taboo as failure or bad teeth.”
Lee Anne Fennell, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, has written a short and amusing paper entitled “Do Not Cite or Circulate.” It’s directed at legal academics, but applies just as well to philosophers. From the opening paragraph:At first I thought I had walked out of the rain and into a time warp: the Sixties seemed not to have happened.
Law professors, who are generally quite enamored of their own words and not especially reluctant to toss around their..
Check out “Hanti’s Notes on Doing a PhD and Getting a Job in Philosophy” by Hanti Lin, assistant professor of philosophy at UC Davis. It has a lot of good advice. Of particular value is the “When to do what?”
A Swedish person is extremely unlikely to get in an elevator if someone else is already in there.
Scandinavians
Check out “Hanti’s Notes on Doing a PhD and Getting a Job in Philosophy” by Hanti Lin, assistant professor of philosophy at UC Davis. It has a lot of good advice. Of particular value is the “When to do what?”
A Swedish person is extremely unlikely to get in an elevator if someone else is already in there.
Scandinavians