The Top Five Jobs For Philosophers

PHILOSPHERS are feeling the credit crunch:

“The scuttlebutt among APA’s roughly 550 job-seekers was that more than 10 percent of 300-plus advertised positions may have been canceled. Morris, in his second year in the philosophy job market and handsomely outfitted in suit and ponytail, remained upbeat, even playful. ‘I’m single, good-looking, athletic, 6-4, my phone number is….’ he joked into a reporter’s tape recorder. Asked where he’d be willing to go to teach philosophy, he replied, ‘Anywhere on the planet. Anywhere at all. Whether or not I get paid. To tell you the truth,’ he quickly added, ‘the only thing that could push me out of philosophy is the student loans I’ve accrued.’”

Saya Ann Althouse:

Philosophers should be people who think especially well, but to have decided upon a career in philosophy marks you as irrational. How do you deal with that raging incoherence?

Anorak looks at the Top Five Jobs For Philosophers:

* Tying Bouquets Interlocking strings of seasonal DNA

* Leader writer for the Daily Mail, arguing that the world will end in 35 seconds from…now!

* Word recycling - Taking everyday words and attributing them to complex scientific principles: ie Big Bang, Milky Way, Red Bus and so on…

* Experts on Big Brother - Hello! ergo sum

* Why a Top Five?

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Anorak

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