Hey now, that might be infinite% growth compared to just a couple of years ago!
replyThose are dining philosophers!
replyPhilosophy majors. That piece of paper does not make you a philosopher.
replyBit of a tangent, but it's fun to think about how much it takes to become a -er, -ian or -ist in a given field. Philosophy is probably one of the hardest, you need to be seen as up there with the all-time greats. In history or physics you probably need to be faculty, in economics you need to have a PhD, in engineering you don't even need a degree but you need to be practicing,...
reply> you need to be seen as up there with the all-time greats
replywhen in school i hung out with a lot of architecture students. They were all told and taught that they will be the next Frank Lloyd Wright or a failure. Then they graduate and end up getting a job drawing construction documents for Taco Bell. Heh they're a pretty jaded bunch.
Still an “architect” though.
replyReminds me of section 211 in Beyond Good and Evil (and all of part 6, for that matter)
replySomeone did quote me on bash.org once as having said: Wanting a man who doesn't smell is like wanting a woman who doesn't talk.
replyThe title of the article is misleading -- they're pretty clearly talking about philosophy PhDs here.
replyBy my personal standards for the term, the majority of philosophers don't have PhDs and the vast majority of philosophy PhDs are not philosophers.
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