This article comes at a very appropriate time as David Egan writes in the latest issues AEON magazine, justifying his profession as a philosophy teacher at CUNY. He writes: “ Outside a university setting, telling people that I’m pursuing a career in philosophy can be a bit of a conversation stopper. More times than I can count, I’ve faced the bemused but well-intentioned question: ‘How is that useful?’ I seem like a nice guy, smart, capable – why am I intent on doing something that won’t make me rich and won’t in any appreciable way make the world a better place?”
Are more women willing to claim this space as male philosophers suffer from dissonance?
This article comes at a very appropriate time as David Egan writes in the latest issues AEON magazine, justifying his profession as a philosophy teacher at CUNY. He writes: “ Outside a university setting, telling people that I’m pursuing a career in philosophy can be a bit of a conversation stopper. More times than I can count, I’ve faced the bemused but well-intentioned question: ‘How is that useful?’ I seem like a nice guy, smart, capable – why am I intent on doing something that won’t make me rich and won’t in any appreciable way make the world a better place?”
Are more women willing to claim this space as male philosophers suffer from dissonance?
Maybe, just maybe more men are exceptional thinkers.
Ugh…
This is an informative topic for me as I am working on gender justice . Hope more articles.