Does anyone who majors in philosophy end up anything other than a socialist, a nihilist, or some other form of denying reality? Any former philosophy majors here?
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say what you like about colorado travis, but he’s def not a socialist, tho maybe a bit of a statist in his defense of treasuries
We are few, but we do exist.
Same. Though I went straight out of college into a job into entry level position in the back offices of a bank.
I should have left academia sooner than I did. No regrets about studying philosophy though. Social anthropology, on the other hand, was when they tried to feed me nonsense and activist propaganda from a fire hose. Having studied philosophy before actually made me more resistant to their crappy arguments.
Computer Science with a Philosophy BA here from over a decade ago 🤓 can't say how the degree influenced me because I wasn't that great of a student and didn't engage much with my peers.
I always felt it was a useless degree for me since I had no intention to pursue academia. However studying philosophy gave me a decent reading habit 👍 grateful for it, probably even more so than my computer science education as time goes on
I'm studying philosophy on my own right now. Realizing that all the idiotic thoughts people have come from bad philosophy, whether implicit or explicit. As a kid I always wondered why adults say such stupid things. I frequently suspected, and now I know, they simply aren't rational and always appeal to some misguided concept of one authority or another.
I love Karl Popper's epistemology of Critical Rationalism, because it takes the only logical stance: "I don't know, and neither do you, but an open mind and severe criticism may get us closer to the truth."