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Re:Why Did a Billionaire Give $75M to a Philosophy Department? by whataretensors on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @11:30AM (#16275076)
My experience with philosophy was a mixture of half-baked history and distracting discussions that aren't useful.
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Re:Why Did a Billionaire Give $75M to a Philosophy Department? by tw1010 on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:38PM (#16275667)
This is the reason introducing mandatory programming in high school will likely cause more harm than good to the reputation of the field. (Don't judge a field of study by how it is taught.)
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Re:Why Did a Billionaire Give $75M to a Philosophy Department? by asimpletune on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @11:38AM (#16275148)
I don’t doubt that :)
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