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>>16977733
I once almost told one of my fellow philosophy students one of these anecdotes. Luckily my train arrived and there was no time to tell it, because not long after that I learned that they're not actually real.

>>16977733
Department politics, try to get tenure, try to publish, teach, the list goes on

>>16977756
Making interesting conversation is more important than stating facts

>>16977756
I thought pic rel was real until I learned the guy was of age.

>>16977775
this is terrible advice if taken to the extreme
I would literally lie out of my ass to seem interesting

>>16977733
in academics a significant amount of time spent is preparing lessons and tutoring students, the rest is just reading/writing papers and books/arranging funding/going to conferences, etc.
Its the same with any STEM prof, they dont actually do any experimental work at that point, its all teaching and reading and writing.

>>16977733
>present day “philosophers”
haven't existed since socrates

>>16977784
Lying is just plain fun though. You can make mundane and inconsequential lies to make the conversation more interesting for yourself without really affecting your conversation partner

>>16977832
OP here, I guess the difference is that STEM still has a wide variety of work outside of academia. Is there something similar for philosophy?

>>16977832
>writing papers and books
about what?

>>16977733
>what do present day “philosophers” do in their day-to-day?
>I’ve lurked this board on and off for years but still have no idea what philosophers actually do
>t.STEMfag
How did you get that stem degree? severe autism? The thought of a stem degree holder not asking this bothers me, i expect people like you to make sense of the world.

So what do philosophers do? the same stuff writers do. Look for inspiration in the activities they do in their free time. Some often study in other fields and use that to feed their work.
It's always been like this and always will (if we ignore transhuman mental states).
Also the teaching part: >>16977832 this post summarizes it well.

>>16977853
No not really, maybe there are a few cases like ethical councils or whatever but theyre few and far between.
like many humanities studies its mostly something you do for yourself.

>>16977733
they mostly debate new systems of deontic logic, counting infinite sets, formal frameworks for modal notions conceived as predicates, Goldbach-Puzzle, formalism, intuition, metalogic, coherence-based probability logic, and interpreting some aspect of what other philosophers came up with.

>>16977733
philosophy is a hobby for the wealthy nothing more

>>16977873
Mostly autism, yeah. But you shouldn’t have that expectation for STEMfags. Most of my classmates have been slobbering retards. Anyway, what do you think most philosophers do in their free time?

>>16977779
kek

I think they mainly post youtube videos and try to cope with having a tranny son

>>16977839
based ecstatic truth teller

>>16977733
My dad has a masters in philosophy and he's just a high school teacher, so that I guess

>>16977939
how did he get that job?

>>16977912
Oh i typed before checking the jpg, so this is about leisure time right? because if so then the answer is even more mundane and less worthwhile.
The only candidates for philosophers with interesting lives are the well documented ones and even then it takes a lot of time to sift out all the crap.
You're never going to know for present day philosophers.

>>16977839
>inconsequential lies
Everytime i eat a steak, millions of cows get slaughtered, every time i throw out electronic trash or buy jewellery african and chinese babies get brain damage from heavy metals.
Such is our non-consequential world.

>>16978067
>every time i throw out electronic trash or buy jewellery african and chinese babies get brain damage from heavy metals.

Which jewelry should I buy? I is a luxury watch good enough? how many braindamaged African children would it equal?

>>16977912
Same as literally any other prof. Works eats up a huge portion of your time, your life outside of work is mostly spending time with your kids and spouse, chores, you probably read in your free time, and then maybe do cardio of some sort (lots of philosophy people I know do marathons or cycling). Philosophers are probably more likely to travel, volunteer, and get more into music or writing than the general populace but not absurdly so. Lots of academics have a side academic interest, like a Hegel professor I know who is into South American music, or a Philosophy of Science guy who likes local history a lot.

t. grad student in the humanities

>>16977733
looks like they interviewed the same guy who was a witness for the Nuremberg trials.

>>16978142
What’s it like to be a humanities grad student? And what do you hope to get out of your career? Just curious