「ど、どうする、っていわれても…（何かをどうかしようと思って博士号を取るわけじゃないし…汗）」
というのが僕の答えでしょうか。
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07/27/2008
04/27/2008
卒業論文あがりました
昨日（２５日）付けで、哲学のDistinguished Major Programを修了するための論文を、二人の審査員に提出しました。今学期はこの論文のためのリサーチの他には哲学のクラスをとっていないので、これで僕の４年間の哲学専攻学部生としての仕事は一応全部終わり、ということになります。
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04/06/2008
04/05/2008
04/04/2008
四月は残酷極まる月だ
先週の水曜から日曜日にかけてインディアナ州のノートルダム大学を訪問し、大学院哲学科を見学してきました。集められるだけの情報を集め、今年の秋からどこの大学院に行くのか、最終決断を下す時がきました。イギリスのオックスフォード大学か、アメリカのノートルダム大学か。
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03/15/2008
考えよ人生の旅人
選ばれてあることの 恍惚と恐怖と 二つがあって大学院受験結果に関して、引き続き報告させていただきます。どうにも僕は言葉足らずで、書き言葉で今の気持ちを表現するのはちょっと難しく、声を録音してポッドキャストみたいにしようかとも考えましたが、恥ずかしいのでやめます（笑）。
わたしの憤りに反して あなたの果てしない寛容
ああ！ なんという苦心、しかしなんという激しさ！
(J'ai l'extase et j'ai la terreur d'être choisi.
Je suis indigne, mais je sais votre clémence.
Ah ! quel effort, mais quelle ardeur ! . . .)―ヴェルレーヌ、『叡智』II, IV
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02/24/2008
02/11/2008
まずは１勝！
今日の午後、インディアナ州のインディアナ大学ブルーミントン校の哲学科のL教授から突然部屋に電話がかかってきて、来年からはぜひインディアナで勉強してほしい、と言われました。つまり、インディアナ大学に合格しました！
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07/26/2007
哲学は子どもの遊び
「子どもの遊びと一緒だよ」と言われることが、哲学や芸術にとっては最高の褒め言葉です。子どもの遊びのように、まったく何の役にも立たないようなことが（子どもにとっては）一番おもしろいのです。
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05/31/2007
iTunes U for you (but not for me?)
Apple has released an upgraded iTunes 7.2, and the two big features new in this version are iTunes Plus, where one can download higher-quality, DRM-free music, and iTunes U, a new section on iTS where lectures and talks from prestigious educational institutions can be downloaded.
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11/11/2006
The Philosophical Gourmet Report
The philosophical Gourmet Report 2004-2006, "a ranking of graduate programs in philosophy in the English-speaking world," edited by Brian Leiter (UT Austin), came out online this morning.
Very interesting to me, not so much for most people. But take a look, if you felt like it.
I realize that those universities that rank highest in the overall ranking are often not so strong in philosophy of religion and philosophy of art, in which I am strongly interested. This is partly attributable, of course, to the increasingly meaningless analytic/continental distinction of the philosophical tradition (in the last century).
For someone interested in studying philosophy of language, religion, and aesthetics, with fairly substantial attention to so-called continental philosophy, i.e., for me, then, the best two programs seem to be offered by: Oxford, Yale, Chicago, Texas, etc.
It would take a miracle (or two) to get me into those programs, to be sure. And this ranking shouldn't concern me any more than this kind of ranking appropriately does. Yet the time will come, as I am determined to go study philosophy at some university. I wonder which ones I'll be looking a year from now.
Very interesting to me, not so much for most people. But take a look, if you felt like it.
I realize that those universities that rank highest in the overall ranking are often not so strong in philosophy of religion and philosophy of art, in which I am strongly interested. This is partly attributable, of course, to the increasingly meaningless analytic/continental distinction of the philosophical tradition (in the last century).
For someone interested in studying philosophy of language, religion, and aesthetics, with fairly substantial attention to so-called continental philosophy, i.e., for me, then, the best two programs seem to be offered by: Oxford, Yale, Chicago, Texas, etc.
It would take a miracle (or two) to get me into those programs, to be sure. And this ranking shouldn't concern me any more than this kind of ranking appropriately does. Yet the time will come, as I am determined to go study philosophy at some university. I wonder which ones I'll be looking a year from now.
10/30/2006
09/30/2006
06/07/2006
05/18/2006
Course Evaluation
At the end of each semester, students fill out what is called "course evaluation," an anonymous questionnaire designed for improvement of teaching and course material.
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04/22/2006
Qu'est-ce que "l'histoire" de la philosophie veut dire?
The other day in OCT lecture, professor Megill was making a point that so-called "history of philosophy" courses taught in American universities often tend to be really "history of epistemology."
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04/11/2006
03/31/2006
03/26/2006
大学バトン（from なべ）
小学校の同窓のなべさんから大学バトンをいただきました。むーちょぐらしあす、せにょりーた。アメリカの大学の話が聞きたい、とのことですが、あんまり面白い回答を期待しないように（笑）。
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03/17/2006
Being a philosophy major
"So what is your major?" is a standard, almost phatic question to get a conversation started with someone. So this person who was sitting next to me asked, "So what's your major?" to which I replied "uh.. philosophy."
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12/23/2005
Student/Faculty Relationship
It seems like the student/faculty relationships in U.Tokyo and in U.Va. are very different.
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