Re: Pick My Major and 2nd Semester Classes for Me!!! (OT)
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Consider the number of 'productive' or 'useful' disciplines which were borne out of philosohy departments in the past 500 years.
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They used to call physics "natural philosophy." This doesn't resemble anything going on in philosophy depts anymore.
I also have a very different experience about what kind of person a philosophy education produces. I know more guys who ended up sitting around smoking pot all day with a "it's all bullshit and nothing matters anyway" attitude than who ended up being ambitious and successful.
The philosophy majors I know are the most cynical people you could imagine, and this often makes them quite unpleasant to be around.
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