Karin’s birthday; tomorrow’s World Cup qualifier; this year’s philosophical job listings
For her birthday, I went with Karin to a stir-fry restaurant at the mall. I also bought her this spiffy coloring book:
Its pages, colored, should look like this:
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Tomorrow is the do-or-die game in Chile. I’d say, “Please pray for Ecuador to win.” But does Ecuador deserve to qualify for this World Cup?
Arguably, no.
However, the Chileans certainly don’t deserve to qualify for this World Cup.
Please pray for Ecuador to win.
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It’s job-listing season for philosophy departments. Despite my hard work this year, it again looks as though my dissertation won’t have progressed far enough for me to be a viable candidate.
Were I to finish the current draft by the end of this month, job-wise it’d still be too late.
I can dream, though.
One job is at a Wesleyan liberal arts college in lovely, rural, upstate New York. It involves helping to “build a program” with one or two other professors. Translation: I could teach in several different subfields outside of my own area of specialization. That’s something I’d very much like to do.
Several other jobs look good because of the nearby mountain scenery. (Actually, there are very few such jobs.)
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This year, even more than usual, political philosophers and moralists are in high demand. This trend is to my advantage.
In especial demand are philosophers who moralize about race. I believe that race is a very important topic. But this recent philosophical emphasis on race leaves me uneasy: it has a whiff of fashionableness about it. In other words, I doubt that the attention now bestowed upon race is a manifestation of good faith.
Still, if I do think of anything worthwhile to say about race, I’ll try to write it in a paper.
Its pages, colored, should look like this:
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Tomorrow is the do-or-die game in Chile. I’d say, “Please pray for Ecuador to win.” But does Ecuador deserve to qualify for this World Cup?
Arguably, no.
However, the Chileans certainly don’t deserve to qualify for this World Cup.
Please pray for Ecuador to win.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
It’s job-listing season for philosophy departments. Despite my hard work this year, it again looks as though my dissertation won’t have progressed far enough for me to be a viable candidate.
Were I to finish the current draft by the end of this month, job-wise it’d still be too late.
I can dream, though.
One job is at a Wesleyan liberal arts college in lovely, rural, upstate New York. It involves helping to “build a program” with one or two other professors. Translation: I could teach in several different subfields outside of my own area of specialization. That’s something I’d very much like to do.
Several other jobs look good because of the nearby mountain scenery. (Actually, there are very few such jobs.)
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
This year, even more than usual, political philosophers and moralists are in high demand. This trend is to my advantage.
In especial demand are philosophers who moralize about race. I believe that race is a very important topic. But this recent philosophical emphasis on race leaves me uneasy: it has a whiff of fashionableness about it. In other words, I doubt that the attention now bestowed upon race is a manifestation of good faith.
Still, if I do think of anything worthwhile to say about race, I’ll try to write it in a paper.