Should I Go Into Philosophy?

Some people have a very pessimistic view of philosophy. For he for those people, philosophy seems like a self indulgent career choice. I think there are clear cases where having the time and space to learn the literature, think through the issues really carefully is definitely one thing that the ear movement needs. If you can get into one of the top graduate programmes in philosophy, then you're probably not high up enough in the profession to be very well placed to make that particular kind of contribution. That'll be my one tentative remark there.