
David Velleman
Five Questions
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What Is Your Greatest Non Philosophical Achievement?
I think my greatest non philosophical achievement is making a lifelong marriage with a wonderful woman and raising two children who have very good hearts. As far as individual achievements go, I would say that my undergraduate teaching Is an non philosophical achievement In the sense that what I hope to achieve in teaching philosophy to undergraduates Has very little to do with their learning philosophy Or becoming philosophers. The thought is you can also write the same write the same philosophy paper many times Not having forgotten at the previous uh, that's a that does sound helpful One of the reasons I am retiring is that I found myself doing just that And decided, you know Don't do that Well, we we will come at the very end out
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