I am all for bringing people in the very beginning, you know, when you're doing your orientation or whatever and saying explicitly, this is what the job market looks like in our field. This is how many. These how many PhDs there are. Right. And and like go in eyes wide open, but don't tell people if they love that you got to spend six years studying. You could have been making whatever six figures you want to make. Could you spend those six years working your way up? But as long as they go in knowing their chances, then I think, yeah, you could have spent six years working at this corporation and making more money now,.But you wouldn
David and Tamler argue about William James' classic essay "The Will to Believe." What's more important - avoiding falsehood or discovering truth? When (if ever) is it rational to believe anything without enough evidence? What about beliefs that we can't be agnostic about? Are there hypotheses that we have to believe in order for them to come true? Does James successfully demonstrate that faith can be rational?
Plus, a philosopher at Apple who's not allowed to talk to the media - what are they hiding? And why are academics constantly telling students that academia is a nightmare?
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