I’m going to do something here that I very rarely did as a graduate student in philosophy: Present the beginnings of a positive theory. This, I think, was what I had seen my dissertation as leading up to, although it never got there and I’ve only recently thought of a completely choate way of expressing [...]
This is a continuation of the story begun here. There’s still more to go; although I talk about making the decision to leave academia in this post, I’m going to devote another post to what the transition out of the academy was like and to how it appears in hindsight.
In November, the weather turned sour [...]
This started as an off-the cuff comment over at the blog for Philosophy Talk, a radio show run by two Stanford philosophers, John Perry and Ken Taylor. But I decided I liked this idea too much to leave it as an unpolished comment.
Reductionism, if you don’t know, is the thesis that claims from one “science” [...]
I’m not an economist, but you knew that, right? In fact, my exposure to the science of economics is one freshman-level econ course, taken almost 20 years ago, plus the minimum due diligence that I think any citizen owes in learning about things that might affect the way they’d vote, plus the random poking about [...]
So, I promised I’d do this. Gulp.
OK, a word of warning: This is long. So long, in fact, that I’m not going to post it all right now; in fact, I’m not even going to post about my actual decision to leave my field (academic philosophy), its reasons or its consequences, today. I started to [...]
