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How undergraduates see philosophy

I am quite sure that this is how undergraduates in philosophy see the whole thing:

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Comments (24)

  1. That’s it. I’m becoming a radical skeptic. There’s nothing we can know or do. 🙂

  2. That’s it. I’m becoming a radical skeptic. There’s nothing we can know or do. 🙂

  3. AHAHAHA!!! that is classic. i love it. I get it all! I received my Master’s in computer science, but always had a fondness for Phil classes. This is just perfect.

  4. I like it!
    I seem to recall, vaguely, a lengthy all-text example along that line. Something about brains in jars on moving trains, perhaps …? I can’t seem to find a link to it now. (I didn’t know there would be a quiz!) Oh, well, I should get back to work in the chinese room.

  5. I like it!
    I seem to recall, vaguely, a lengthy all-text example along that line. Something about brains in jars on moving trains, perhaps …? I can’t seem to find a link to it now. (I didn’t know there would be a quiz!) Oh, well, I should get back to work in the chinese room.

  6. Gee, unlike Dennett’s list of philosophical neologisms, I actually understood most of the references. Perhaps there’s hope for me yet….

  8. I am quite sure that this is how undergraduates in philosophy see the whole thing:

    Wots undergrads got tuh do with it!
    This is wot filosofi is about ain it?

  9. I am quite sure that this is how undergraduates in philosophy see the whole thing:

    Wots undergrads got tuh do with it!
    This is wot filosofi is about ain it?

  10. Well I didn’t want to criticise academics who aren’t philosophers, but that is how a lot of them see it, too.

  11. This is the most awesome comic I’ve seen in the last year.

  12. I didn’t want to criticise academics who aren’t philosophers,

    Aren’t all academics philosophers? Or don’t they, at least, think they have the right, as academics, to philosophize?

  13. I didn’t want to criticise academics who aren’t philosophers,

    Aren’t all academics philosophers? Or don’t they, at least, think they have the right, as academics, to philosophize?

  14. I didn’t want to criticise academics who aren’t philosophers,

    Aren’t all academics philosophers? Or don’t they, at least, think they have the right, as academics, to philosophize?

  15. Aren’t all academics philosophers? Or don’t they, at least, think they have the right, as academics, to philosophize?

    Yes.They just don’t think that their philosophizing is philosophizing.
    This is an especially common attitude amongst academics in the natural sciences.

  16. Aren’t all academics philosophers? Or don’t they, at least, think they have the right, as academics, to philosophize?

    Yes.They just don’t think that their philosophizing is philosophizing.
    This is an especially common attitude amongst academics in the natural sciences.

  17. Highly amusing.
    I sincerely wish that my undergrad philosophy profs had been nearly that clever.
    Rt

  18. Highly amusing.
    I sincerely wish that my undergrad philosophy profs had been nearly that clever.
    Rt

  19. “Philosophy” is probably something that anyone with any intelligence has a natural inclination to engage in. And everyone thinks they’re an expert. Kinda like politics. Forget Searle and Hauser – maybe there’s even a philosophy gene 😉 I haven’t checked – is philosophy defined in the basic concepts list? Might be interesting.

  20. I kinda remember this — those shadows on the wall of the cave were explaining the length of the flagpole, iirc, but I just don’t remember where the flagpole was with respect to the train tracks!

  21. This is a masterpiece. Thanks for sharing it. Though it is deplorable they left the “brain in a vat” issue.
    The comics did put my brain on fire. (Now, where did I put that vat…)

  22. This is a masterpiece. Thanks for sharing it. Though it is deplorable they left the “brain in a vat” issue.
    The comics did put my brain on fire. (Now, where did I put that vat…)

  23. This is a masterpiece. Thanks for sharing it. Though it is deplorable they left the “brain in a vat” issue.
    The comics did put my brain on fire. (Now, where did I put that vat…)

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