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Well, I'm finally in the new apartment, worn, tired, sleep-deprived and stressed for all the missed homework! The apartment is nice, though, in that very cheaply constructed faux-luxury way, and I even splurged for a fancy halogen remote-controlled ceiling fan contraption. Otherwise the move was a complete DIY affair, so I got off pretty cheaply, with a lot of workout to boot.
Now I just have to unpack...
Meanwhile, the Foundations of Political Inquiry class is going reasonably well. The billion essays we have to read still largely make no sense (my BS alarm is being so loud it overshadows anything else), but once the professor summarizes what the essays tried to say, it seems a lot more reasonable. Very much philosophy of science, all the way back to Aristotle (Aristoteles?), the role of language as a medium through which the world is observed, uncertainty about the existence of Chomskian "deep grammar" and hence whether an objective, value-free science describing the world can even exist, pondering on whether there is any value in value-freedom, the role of morality etc. I'm not sure how political scientists ever get any research done, if they're convinced that there are dubious foundations to their science. I'm fairly confident I can come up with the required number of papers in the required amount of time. Now I just need to figure out how to use new fonts with LaTeX, and hopefully how to make it produce half-way decent PDFs.
Now I just have to unpack...
Meanwhile, the Foundations of Political Inquiry class is going reasonably well. The billion essays we have to read still largely make no sense (my BS alarm is being so loud it overshadows anything else), but once the professor summarizes what the essays tried to say, it seems a lot more reasonable. Very much philosophy of science, all the way back to Aristotle (Aristoteles?), the role of language as a medium through which the world is observed, uncertainty about the existence of Chomskian "deep grammar" and hence whether an objective, value-free science describing the world can even exist, pondering on whether there is any value in value-freedom, the role of morality etc. I'm not sure how political scientists ever get any research done, if they're convinced that there are dubious foundations to their science. I'm fairly confident I can come up with the required number of papers in the required amount of time. Now I just need to figure out how to use new fonts with LaTeX, and hopefully how to make it produce half-way decent PDFs.
