Is Grad School a Mourning?

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I almost feel like I have to at least try to represent some kind of positivity because people are going into thinking that grad school is just going to be this miserable, stressful, stress-induced, 80-hour-a-week job. And the truth is that like entry-level corporate jobs, my sister was a corporate attorney coming out of law school. They just don't have time to complain about it. Hey, we went to school for five years and yeah, we only got paid a stipend, but that's it. Like we deserve a job or something. It's not how the world works.

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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