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You left out the combativeness, the fact that hardly anyone will read your work, the unnecessary inaccessibility of the field, the low pay of post-grad work and
by dieterrams 8y ago
You left out the combativeness, the fact that hardly anyone will read your work, the unnecessary inaccessibility of the field, the low pay of post-grad work and poor odds of getting tenure, and the academic equivalent of pagerank gaming to gain notice.
Even by an analytic philosopher’s standard, your summary is rather uncharitable and reductive.
- tejaswidp 8y agoSure, but the primary point of her article was the abstract nature of academia which they should have expected going in.
- SiempreViernes 8y agoI would characterize that as the standard “I didn’t like it” for academia, listing its well known problems. More interesting would be a discussion about why the support systems in place didn’t protect her from them, but this is simply a list of common problems.
- dieterrams 8y agoSure, but you might be surprised how many undergrads go in not realizing how common these are.