(1) How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could reach enlightenment?
(2) How did you get to know all those Zetes?
(3) I know nothing about your life before your grad student life. What happened in it? Reference three defining events: one from childhood, one from adolescence, one from undergraduate college.
(4) Tell me what you are like when you are really, really, really pissed off.
(5) If you could enforce a new national holiday for the next 50 years, what would it be in honor of, and what day would it be?
(1) If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be? (AND WHY!!!)
(2) A hundred years from now, your biographer is carefully going over your collected writings, song lyrics, papers, etc., and trying desperately to find a link between your music and your philosophical works. What do they turn/make up?
(3) You never answered my meta-ethics question from before. Where do you stand? Cognitivism? Realism? Flesh out your best current hunches.
(4) You are in a prison cell. The toilet is clogged. A burly guard stands outside your cell, contemplating the ceiling. Your inventory contains: two tongue depressors, razor blade, twine, Aunt Mildred's carrot cake, a loyal moose. Plan your escape.
(1) This question is retarded and I'm not going to answer it.
(2) They will say that I engaged in that subtle balancing act between Apollonian reason and Dionysian madness which is constituative of the best life. They will then report what a shame it was that I died of the Clap, as I was doing such an admirable job of this.
(3) I stand firmly with Bernard Williams and his general method, though perhaps without the occasional over-emphasis on Humean practical reason (ick!). That is to say, I believe that any theorist who holds that principle P has overriding normative authority must demonstrate that there are no situations under which it would be good to violate P. Furthermore, and in light of this kind of analysis, I whole-heartedly endorse Nietzsche's assertion that if an agent is to pursue value, they must occasionally (for some agents, often) violate moral laws, no matter what the source of those laws. I believe that absurdity, irrationality and occasional forays into the "bad" are necessary for the pursuit of a valuable
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You've never seen a moose, have you? No standard prison cell could hold a sufficiently motivated moose, and no prison guard could withstand a co-ordinated attack from a man and his loyal moose. These are things I learned as a member of the Royal Canadian Moose Mounties, and I urge you to remember them.
Ok. This does give you the win, but at only 34 out of a possible 56 point.
For maximum points, the sequence was:
USE razor-blade with tongue-depressors USE twine with unstable shiv FLUSH toilet TALK TO guard EAT cake PICK UP sticky file USE sticky file on cell door OPEN cell door HIDE HIT guard with shiv HIT guard with shiv HIT guard with shiv MOUNT moose RIDE moose to freedom
(1) If you had to get a chip implanted in your own brain that gave you some sort of high-tech control over your own mind, or otherwise gave you mind some sort of high-tech control over something else, what would it be?
(2) Tell me about the motherland.
(3) What is your Myers-Briggs Personality type? FOLLOW UP: Do you think there is any validity, at all, to Myers-Briggs typology?
(4) Describe a moment of mediocrity from the last year in vivid detail.
Sorry to be so slow on these. I wanted to make sure I used my five questions wisely.
(1) When I think back on my middle school years, I recall some very strong opinions about my various teachers; some good, some bad, some crazy, some bitchy, some hardassed but worthy of respect, etc. Generally speaking, how do you think your students think of you? Do you have any nicknames among them that you know about?
(2) Keichu, the first wheel-maker in China, made two wheels having fifty spokes each. Suppose you took a wheel and removed the nave uniting the spokes. What would become of the wheel? If Keichu had done so, could he be called the master wheel-maker?
(3) Tomorrow, you get to be Prime Minister of Canada for a day. What do you do?
(4) Take one of your most dearly held beliefs about the world. State it. Now: what sorts of facts, experiences, analysis, or reasons would convince you that you were wrong?
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(1) Negative income tax rocks as a way of providing guaranteed minimal income.
(2) I like economics?
(3) Zombie VP is improvement over Vampire VP.
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(2) How did you get to know all those Zetes?
(3) I know nothing about your life before your grad student life. What happened in it? Reference three defining events: one from childhood, one from adolescence, one from undergraduate college.
(4) Tell me what you are like when you are really, really, really pissed off.
(5) If you could enforce a new national holiday for the next 50 years, what would it be in honor of, and what day would it be?
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And yeah Dan Bern! Good Vancouver boy!
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(2) A hundred years from now, your biographer is carefully going over your collected writings, song lyrics, papers, etc., and trying desperately to find a link between your music and your philosophical works. What do they turn/make up?
(3) You never answered my meta-ethics question from before. Where do you stand? Cognitivism? Realism? Flesh out your best current hunches.
(4) You are in a prison cell. The toilet is clogged. A burly guard stands outside your cell, contemplating the ceiling. Your inventory contains: two tongue depressors, razor blade, twine, Aunt Mildred's carrot cake, a loyal moose. Plan your escape.
(5) Who were amicosapientis?
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(2) They will say that I engaged in that subtle balancing act between Apollonian reason and Dionysian madness which is constituative of the best life. They will then report what a shame it was that I died of the Clap, as I was doing such an admirable job of this.
(3) I stand firmly with Bernard Williams and his general method, though perhaps without the occasional over-emphasis on Humean practical reason (ick!). That is to say, I believe that any theorist who holds that principle P has overriding normative authority must demonstrate that there are no situations under which it would be good to violate P. Furthermore, and in light of this kind of analysis, I whole-heartedly endorse Nietzsche's assertion that if an agent is to pursue value, they must occasionally (for some agents, often) violate moral laws, no matter what the source of those laws. I believe that absurdity, irrationality and occasional forays into the "bad" are necessary for the pursuit of a valuable ( ... )
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Ok. This does give you the win, but at only 34 out of a possible 56 point.
For maximum points, the sequence was:
USE razor-blade with tongue-depressors
USE twine with unstable shiv
FLUSH toilet
TALK TO guard
EAT cake
PICK UP sticky file
USE sticky file on cell door
OPEN cell door
HIDE
HIT guard with shiv
HIT guard with shiv
HIT guard with shiv
MOUNT moose
RIDE moose to freedom
(5) I don't care. They were great times, though.
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Out.
Cop out.
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(2) Tell me about the motherland.
(3) What is your Myers-Briggs Personality type? FOLLOW UP: Do you think there is any validity, at all, to Myers-Briggs typology?
(4) Describe a moment of mediocrity from the last year in vivid detail.
(5) Is the answer to this question "No"?
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(1) When I think back on my middle school years, I recall some very strong opinions about my various teachers; some good, some bad, some crazy, some bitchy, some hardassed but worthy of respect, etc. Generally speaking, how do you think your students think of you? Do you have any nicknames among them that you know about?
(2) Keichu, the first wheel-maker in China, made two wheels having fifty spokes each. Suppose you took a wheel and removed the nave uniting the spokes. What would become of the wheel? If Keichu had done so, could he be called the master wheel-maker?
(3) Tomorrow, you get to be Prime Minister of Canada for a day. What do you do?
(4) Take one of your most dearly held beliefs about the world. State it. Now: what sorts of facts, experiences, analysis, or reasons would convince you that you were wrong?
(5) Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
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