Wed 15 Aug 2007
Why I'm not cut out to be a philosophy major
Posted by Darren under Epistemology , Faith , PhilosophySometimes I think that I might like to study philosophy at a graduate level. To cure myself of this notion, I've found it to be effective to simply open up a scholarly journal of philosophy and read some of the articles (or even just the titles). For example:
Does Existence Itself Exist? Transcendental Nihilism Meets the Paradigm Theory – William F. Vallicella
I mean, come ON. (Love the conspiracy-theory-site type design on that site; this article was published in a scholarly collection of philosophy long before being posted here.) I can see how the topic would be of interest to some, but personally I couldn't endure writing about such a subject. Even as someone who's interested in epistemology and ontology, I don't feel the need to debate whether existence exists.
I guess I'll leave this particular area of philosophy to real pro philosophers.
That said, Dr Vallicella (author of the existence article above) does run an interesting blog called Maverick Philosopher that I read on occasion … it's where I came across the article, and his blog is worth checking out.
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