The Philosophers' Cocoon
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recent posts
- Withdrawing a manuscript because of typos and structural issues?
- Completing a US PhD within 4 years?
- Putting lighthearted accomplishments on one’s “author CV” for book proposals?
- The status of the journal “Dialectica”?
- Changing 3rd personal self-citations to 1st person when editing proofs for publication?
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Category: Humor
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Hey ya'll. Sorry for the radio silence. I've been rushing to finish my dissertation so I can start a new gig in the Fall, and its been all consuming. I'll be designing some new courses from scratch later this summer, at which point I plan to continue the syllabus design series. But in the meantime,…
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In 1985, Starship famously shocked the world by purporting to prove that we built this city on rock-and-roll (for a summary of the proof, see Figure 1). Figure 1. "We Built This City" Although initially met with skepticism, Starship's proof has surprisingly never been refuted, that is, until now. This morning, an area philosopher, working under the online…
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And in the 2500 eons of time before ranked time, there was formlessness. Apart from The Academy and The Lyceum, one knew not where a department stood, nor how deeply one might plant one's feet. One's judgment was clouded by the gossip of the philosophers and the void created by opinion and argument. And one…
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An area philosopher is reported to have accomplished something long thought impossible: a definitive refutation of Ludgwig Wittgenstein's famous Private Language Argument. In an exclusive recent interview, the philosopher, who for the time being prefers not to be named, announced, "I've done it. I have definitively refuted the Private Language Argument." When asked to provide…