Editing my book (forthcoming, De Gruyter!), found that I’d quoted Dilthey complaining in a letter to his publisher (Walter de Gruyter!) about being exhausted and unable to meet his deadlines. Very pleased with this.

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Theory: Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice is grumpy because he was an analytic philosopher born several generations too early.

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„He died learning“ as an epitaph for an academic is both admirable and a bit sad.

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apa is pretty chill now that you don’t have to go sit on a hotel bed for a first round job interview with a bunch of guys who got tenure in 1972, also they don’t smoke in the smoker anymore

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Traditionally, the eastern apa was where almost every department hiring conducted first-round interviews of 10-12 candidates, before inviting a 3-5 of them for campus interviews. Increasingly, more departments are doing that first-round by zoom, or just skipping it altogether.

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