29b38d No.6599
>be me
>philosophy major
>sign up for metaphysics and epistemology this semester
>go to class expecting to learn about and read Hume Descartes Locke Kant Witt etc
>get syllabus, all of the readings are contemporary analytic philosophers working within Russell's paradigm
>both professors fellate Russell every class
I knew most philosophy departments in North America followed the analytic school, but not to this extent. I also thought we'd start with the Greeks, like everyone says, but were starting the contemporaries. Is this how it is everywhere? How should I approach this, this wasn't what I was expecting at all.
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08fd8a No.6609
>>6599
Drop out. They are teaching academic philosophy. That's not true philosophy.
Drop out. Read biographies about philosophers, shamans, gurus, trance channellers, mystics, Zen masters, and psychonauts. Listen to some Alan Watts or Terence Mckenna or Alexander T. Newport. Any and all of those things will trigger further suggestions for exploration & references. Otherwise, you're fucked with the drudgery of academic diarrhea---telling them what they wanna hear. That ain't being a man.
Go for a degree in accounting & taxes. You'll never be unemployed.
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ad3eaa No.6612
Shoot up your philosophy class.
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a4ee35 No.6616
>>6599
Tough it out. Challenge them. If you think you know something then show it. Might as well damage their credibility infront of the whole class.
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f9925f No.6890
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94179d No.6891
>>6599
Wittgenstein is interesting, Russell is boring, but you can have fun with A.J. Ayer's thoughts especially on Igtheism. They wont teach you the greek classic stuff first as you need to know what we did with all of that stuff, where it all lead to before you can appreciate where it all came from
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94179d No.6892
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640ab9 No.6895
>>6599
>within Russell's paradigm
Which is?
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1518c6 No.7223
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9c953b No.7448
>>6599
This is normal and fair, you should read older accounts on your own. Read Anthony Kenny's 4 part history of philosophy series and stop being a pseud
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f813c9 No.7449
>>6599
You will read those guys in history of modern philosophy classes. Of course a class on metaphysics/epistemology will talk about the contemporary stuff, where else will they do that? That's why the contemporary stuff exists, to advance those fields, and that's why they get taught. Mind you I love the early moderns and I would love to go back to them for more epistemology/metaphysics in their style. But you will get taught contemporary stuff in those kinds of classes and you have to expect that from the start. Yes, this is how it is everywhere (in my experience). Do you know what topics you're studying?
>>6609
People make a lot of money and fame by peddling that sort of stuff to others like you and you think they're not telling you exactly what you want to hear?
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da29a4 No.7457
>>7449
>That's why the contemporary stuff exists, to advance those fields, and that's why they get taught
But philosophy hasn't been advanced appreciably since it was murdered and usurped during the scientific revolution, so that can't be the reason it gets taught.
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ad3eaa No.7496
>>7457
This. The scientific method treats everything based on a gay mathematical construct
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