The Philosophers' Cocoon
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- Tips for students and/or early career folk who face a mental block in writing papers?
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Category: Professional struggles
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In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, 'One Hundred Semesters of Solitude' writes: I'd like to initiate a conversation about the unexpected and honestly often quite difficult loneliness of having chosen an academic career. Note that I'm NOT looking for some Cocoon-style "what are *your* thoughts" on how to DEAL with this loneliness.…
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Many grad students at the department where I work (Saint Louis University, philosophy) are fluent Latinists. In the hallways they make constructions such as these for fun in Latin (I am unfortunately not so endowed, so I’ll give you my approximation in English): Q: Whether it is true that there are alligators in Florida?…
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The other day, we had a thread discussing the situation of reader who is grappling with a loss of intellectual passion. In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, Med raises a related query that I expect other philosophers may identify with: I am curious to see some tips for accepting one's mediocrity as…
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In our newest "how can we help you?" thread, X writes: I am not interested in philosophy/intellectual work anymore, it seems. I’ve been devoted to (formal) philosophy for about a decade, and was really passionate at the beginning, with ok success (some ideas people liked, books with ok presses, a few decent papers in good…