More undergraduates are majoring in philosophy

Re:More undergraduates are majoring in philosophy by danohuiginn on Sunday April 06, 2008 @01:30PM (#156233)

Given how many people here are philosophy majors (lots), it can't be an entirely bad thing.

And provided you treat it as 'figuring out how to argue rationally about difficult topics' rather than 'being able to namecheck dead philosophers', it's probably as useful as any other non-applied degree course.

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Re:More undergraduates are majoring in philosophy by bayareaguy on Sunday April 06, 2008 @04:13PM (#156387)

It's also good for people who later work in Cognitive Science or Artificial Intelligence.

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Re:More undergraduates are majoring in philosophy by michaelr on Sunday April 06, 2008 @04:17PM (#156390)

I'm just finishing up a course on the "Philosophy of Mind" and I can not agree more.

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Re:More undergraduates are majoring in philosophy by donal on Sunday April 06, 2008 @07:23PM (#156491)

I took a class with the same title and it was fascinating. Unfortunately it didn't reach to far into the digital age, but it was just good to get a broad sense of the arguments before delving into any new writings on the subject.

I also think I learned more in my Philosophy classes than my Comp Sci classes, but then I dropped out of the CompSci program and majored in Philo, so I am probably biased.

I'd judge myself better off than a significant number of technical majors that just were trying to get a good job after graduation. I had the benefit of a Liberal Arts school too, so I also took a lot of CompSci classes (How many Philo majors do you know that took Digital Electronics and had to build up an simple computer on a breadboard?).

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