Ask HN: Pursuing career in academic philosophy?

2 点作者 lainon超过 6 年前

How hard is it to get into academic philosophy and do it for a living? Any professional philosophers here on HN?

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keiferski超过 6 年前

Immensely difficult. I wouldn’t recommend it. I personally witnessed extremely intelligent PhD students struggle to get any job beyond an adjunct position.<p>Source: BA in philosophy.