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Published · transcript-backedLarissa MacFarquhar: prediction
16 Jan 2019 Conversations with Tyler Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
“I think I had an experience that many people have had, which is they want to study philosophy because they think it’s going to be about the meaning of life, and they get into a philosophy class, and it turns out to resemble something more like algebra, and they’re discouraged and move onto some other discipline.”
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- Larissa MacFarquhar
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- 16 Jan 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…But you read philosophy; you’ve read Parfit. You understand philosophy at a deep level. Where does that come from? I love it. I love reading philosophy. But stupidly, I didn’t take philosophy classes in college. I think I had an experience that many people have had, which is they want to study philosophy because they think it’s going to be about the meaning of life, and they get into a philosophy class, and it turns out to resemble something more like algebra, and they’re discouraged and move onto some other discipline. That’s what happened to me, but I love philosophy now. Could you ever imagine relaunching Lingua Franca? Could such a thing survive today? You had an early role in it, correct?…
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