Unless his Metacritique is very short, you can't read it all without registering and using multiple amazon accounts, as it keeps track of how many pages total you've read in a given book.
Fuck. Yeah, it was. I was going to ask - what's a philo PhD like? Most of the PhD's I know (all, I think) are actually science geeks, and they seem to need to complete a project (i.e. , get to a point where they get useable data) to finish. So the life-cycle varies a fair bit (I've heard 3 years and I've heard 8 years). Do you have to do "important work" to get your philo PhD? (I've never really thought about getting a PhD, so I guess I'm wondering at the process for humanities types).
ebl wasn't the Jewish one, was she? 'Cause naming a Jewish kid "Hamann" would be seriously fucked up.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 10:37 AM
Ex is Jewish, EBL, not.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 10:41 AM
Unless his Metacritique is very short, you can't read it all without registering and using multiple amazon accounts, as it keeps track of how many pages total you've read in a given book.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 10:53 AM
How short is very short? I think the MC is about 15 pages.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 10:55 AM
Oh, then you can probably do it. Naturally I didn't bother to check my facts before posting nonsense to unfogged.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 11:03 AM
"Worth clicking through then, for the three of you."
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 3:34 PM
Wow. But those are totally engineering geeks, not philosophy geeks.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 3:45 PM
Let me guess; philo geeks have cooler frames for their coke-bottle glasses.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 3:47 PM
We're all about the thick black plastic frames.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 3:49 PM
Out of curiousity
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 3:50 PM
philo geeks have cooler frames for their coke-bottle glasses.
That's right, actually. And they'd be wearing darker (monochromatic) clothes.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 3:50 PM
Fuck. Yeah, it was. I was going to ask - what's a philo PhD like? Most of the PhD's I know (all, I think) are actually science geeks, and they seem to need to complete a project (i.e. , get to a point where they get useable data) to finish. So the life-cycle varies a fair bit (I've heard 3 years and I've heard 8 years). Do you have to do "important work" to get your philo PhD? (I've never really thought about getting a PhD, so I guess I'm wondering at the process for humanities types).
Ignore if these questions are annoying.
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 3:55 PM
Giving the actual philosophy PhDs a chance to answer...
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 4:03 PM
"Important Work" is antithetical to the function of a true philosopher.
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 04-20-05 5:57 PM