{"id":400,"date":"2007-06-09T08:14:32","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T12:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2007-06-09T08:14:32","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T12:14:32","slug":"philosophy-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy Majors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2007\/06\/philosopherpundits_of_the_worl.php\">former philosophy major writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>>It&#8217;s quite true that would <a href=\"http:\/\/tbogg.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/failure-to-succeed-eli-lake-thinks-that.html\">Eli Lake<\/a> says here is nonsense. That said, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2007\/6\/8\/111530\/0687\">BarbinMD<\/a> at DailyKos takes things too far when she writes: &#8220;By the way, did I mention that Lake majored in philosophy in college? Currently writing for the New York Sun, he apparently couldn&#8217;t find a job in his chosen field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>>I majored in philosophy, damnit (so did Spencer Ackerman and Julian Sanchez), and it&#8217;s a perfectly good thing for journalists to study. In some ways, I think it&#8217;s actually the best thing to study. The job, by its nature, involves trying to quickly learn and write a lot about a wide range of subjects. Under the circumstances, <strong>spending your student years trying to master a skill-set that&#8217;s completely divorced from knowledge of particular facts is pretty useful.<\/strong> If you&#8217;re good at spotting flaws in the arguments constructed by others irrespective of what the topic is, you&#8217;ll never lack for things to write about.<\/p>\n<p>Huzzah for the &#8220;flaws in arguments&#8221; part; whiskey, tango, foxtrot question mark for the &#8220;divorced from knowledge of particular facts&#8221; part: logic is only one tiny part of philosophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former philosophy major writes: >It&#8217;s quite true that would Eli Lake says here is nonsense. That said, BarbinMD at DailyKos takes things too far when she writes: &#8220;By the way, did I mention that Lake majored in philosophy in college? Currently writing for the New York Sun, he apparently couldn&#8217;t find a job in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=400\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Philosophy Majors<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}