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i find a huge connection between drugs and philosophy but then again im kind of obsessed with acid from habing an insane trip when i was like 15 lol
Film studies, as well as philosophy, is the kind of thing where you either want to really, really shoot for academia
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Are you kidding me? You have philosophy classes which set multiple choice exams as assessment items? That is ridiculous - you can't assess philosophy with a multiple choice exam.
A philosophy exam where there is one unambiguously correct answer? What a crock of shit.
Haha, no reason to get all pissed off about it. At the end of the day you still need a way to assess someone's knowledge of the material.
My advice would be to take philosophy for the metaphysics, psychology for the individual perspective, sociology or anthropology for a broader social perspective, and then something different, maybe history, maybe neuroscience, maybe a language, maybe art history or something like that.
gp said:Contemporary philosophy in the US is not patty-cake...there are some VERY sharp people involved and the methodologies people use are very rigorous.
I think satiricon is spot on.
Lawl. You're suggesting the exact thing that I did in undergrad (majors in psychology, philosophy, and sociology). I'll also note that I did most of my research in cognitive psychology, in a sub-area that happened to require near no background in bio or chem. Applying to an academic-track psych program was easily within reach.
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As an aside, I think that soc and anthro should rejoin at this point.
Absolutely, and the only way to do that is to set an analytical essay. Even if you do it in an exam context where people have a couple of hours to write one or two essays. Multiple choice exams don't assess philosophy, they assess rote learning, which is the opposite of philosophy.
I think everyone in University should be required to take Bio 101 and Chem 101. I'm terrible at math and I find these courses to be absolutely crucial to understanding life and the world around you. Why anyone would skip out on these is beyond me. Even if they are in an arts or social science degree.
That said, I resent the math prerequisite to any science related course.