At Uni right now... just had the first lecture for Meaning and Interpretation. Anita has taken over Lubica's position as lecturer, she has just recieved her PhD I believe, you could tell she was quite nervous, but good on her. :) Much better job than I could have done if I were in her position!
Just saw Paul walking by and we spoke for a minute.. he was rushing off to a lecture. Green light, good to go! He said. I admitted I was quite nervous, he said that's understandable but this Semester is just like any other Semester with the 2 units I'm doing.
I tried to change PHL472 to PHL272, but apparently I must submit another Honours program form.... something which is annoying and takes time from Paul and the administration... so I'm almost tempted just to leave it how it is. A challenge? Stupid move? Laziness?
Who knows.
Well, Meaning and Interpretation looks good. We are studying Nietzsche one week, so I think I might write about him for my second essay. 3000 words! Gosh... At least it will be good practice for thesis writing.
I also volunteered (or rather, was forced to because of my late Honours submission) to attend the later tutorial at 3pm instead of 1:30pm. Which means I'm here till 4:30pm on Tuesdays now. Sigh. But, this 2 1/2 hour break will become useful for studying and making use of the library seeing as I am not able to just wander down here whenever desired like I used to when I lived in the Canary house.
This weekend:
-PHL472 readings.
-Start thinking about Ethics essay. Choose one and do some light research into it.
hi thar!. just browsing perth ppl blogs. came across ur 2 =). please be >= 24. otherwise i'll feel really shitty about myself.
ReplyDeleteso how is philosophy working out? do u get an extra 1 unit of understanding for the 10 units involved in reading the original texts... i'm happy with my 10 units from 1 unit of reading "introducing philosophy" and my dk brian magee book. lots of pictures =). jkjk. i'm sure it is a good investment. i'm just bitter i can't make it :P. well @tm maybe.
i have a walter kaufman zarathustra. but i start it. then leave it. then start it again. i've probably read the first few chapters 10 times now. but i'm like that with everything lately.
1 of my maths lecturers (http://school.maths.uwa.edu.au/~mike/ u should talk to him. he sits in this one place most of the time, smoking cigars and drinking diet coke lol) told me not to bother with frege... i must have been making excuses not to do the actual maths cause i was trying to get to the "foundations of mathematics"... do you do that? is that what you were doing with frege? deduction?... do you do mathematical logic?... i think i found the perfect book for myself alfred tarski. also berties principles of mathematics. but tarski prolly first... what i want to beable to do is understand mathematics like this: http://www.metamath.org/
blah blah. also. do you think your philosophy is destroying you lol. you should stick to biological & physical sciences. that's the way the world works. i hope u don't deviant from that :P. hard determinism ftw.
wouldn't mind chatting to u if u msn and don't find me too dumb :P.