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I'm impressed with the sort of respect graduate students are accorded in my department. HPS is hiring a new professor (specialising in philosophy of physics) and it's down to four contenders so they are letting the grad students see the CVs! All the applicants are coming and giving talks (which we're all expected to attend and are encouraged to ask questions).
The best bit for the students is the free meals! The applicants, like any other guest speaker, need to be entertained so there is a lunch and a dinner provided at local restaurants and the dept pays for 2 or 3 students to go along. So I'm having dinner Tuesday and lunch Friday. Now I just have to think of something intelligent to ask a philosopher of physics.
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Cam raises an interesting point about the epistemic practices of the various sciences and how they correlate with the ontological aesthetics of their practitioners -- this does sound like philosophy of science to me! Just have to develop a theory to explain the empirical data, it's hard to say whether there's a causal link.
Beryl, the philosopher's song is really only sung at the university of Woolloomooloo, although Steve and I did have to sing it after I told an American that their beer is 'like making love in a canoe'. You don't know how right you are about the need for affirmative action in philosophy departments.
The candidate dinner was ok. We went to a restaurant named Casablanca where the obsequious waiter looked a bit like Signor Ferrari from the movie but without the fez. Tomorrow I'm having lunch with another speaker in the Tudor Room (not as fancy as it sounds). He does relativity and spacetime stuff so I think I'll just ask him something about why Biff giving himself the almanac didn't affect the old Biff at all.
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