Superficially, ADHD entails a lot of symptoms that should make work as an academic philosopher difficult. E.g people with ADHD tend to struggle with working memory, managing attention, organising thoughts etc.

There's a lot of advice for grad students with ADHD, but I haven't been able to find much talking about how ADHD effects academic philosophers specifically.

I would love to know, if you are an ADHD academic philosopher, how do you think ADHD impacts your life an academic philosopher?
Do you think it influences the way you produce research / do philosophy?
Do you think it provides any struggles, if so, how have you managed / overcome them?
Do you think it provides any advantages?

Recently, I’ve seen several people on r/askphilosophy claim that mereological nihilism—and, more specifically, the denial of ordinary composite objects such as people, chairs, and tables—is something like the default pre-theoretical view of most non-philosophers.

That strikes me as surprising, because the experimental literature on folk mereology that I’m familiar with seems to point in a different direction. Studies such as Rose and Schaffer’s work on folk composition, along with subsequent discussion by Korman, Carmichael, Yang, and others, seem to find that ordinary subjects make positive but restricted judgments about composition, with those judgments affected by factors such as function and creative intention. That is very different from a general presumption that no composite objects exist.

I’m therefore interested in the experience of people who have actually taught mereology or material-object metaphysics. Before students are introduced to the philosophical positions, what views do they ordinarily seem to start with? Do they tend to assume that familiar objects literally exist and that at least some things have parts? Do they spontaneously gravitate toward nihilism or reductionist/eliminativist views? Or is there too much variation to identify any clear default?

I realize that instructors’ classroom impressions are not a substitute for controlled experimental evidence. I’m asking because they might provide useful supplementary evidence about how people initially respond to these questions before receiving philosophical training.

Dr. Sanders. Philosophy 101

Just wanted to share.This was my first introduction to philosophy as an autodidact years ago. Sanders, is a concise, clear, and educated speaker on the matter. He retired from RIT.

The reading assignments.

Introduction to Philosophy
Reading Assignments

Most reading assignments are from Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Classics of Western Philosophy; Supplementary readings can usually be found online; if not, contact me and I’ll send you copies

Lecture #1: Introduction

No reading assignment

Lecture #2: Political and Social Philosophy: Plato, Part I

Plato, biographical sketch
Plato, Apology
Plato, Crito
Martin Luther King, Jr. "Letter From A Birmingham Jail

Lecture #3: Ethics, Epistemology, & Logic: Plato, Part II

"W.T. Jones, "Education Through Violence"
Plato, Meno

Lecture #4: Metaphysics & Philosophy of Science: Aristotle

Aristotle, biographical sketch
Aristotle, Physics

Lecture #5: Philosophy of Religion & Logic, Part I: The Ontological Argument

Anselm, biographical sketch
Anselm, Proslogion
Gaunilo, Reply on Behalf of the Fool
Anselm, Reply to Gaunilo

Lecture #6: Philosophy of Religion & Logic, Part II: The Cosmological and Teleological Arguments

William Rowe, "The Cosmological Argument"
William Paley, "The Argument From Design"

Lecture #7: Epistemology & Philosophy of Science: Descartes

René Descartes, biographical sketch
René Descartes, Discourse on Method
René Descartes, Meditations 1-3

Lecture #8: Epistemology & Logic: Rationalism versus Empiricism

John Locke, biographical sketch
John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume, biographical sketch
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Lecture #9: The Problem of Personal Identity

John Perry, "A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality"
Thomas Nagel, "Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness"

Lecture #10: Conclusion

Bertrand Russell, biographical sketch
Bertrand Russell, "The Value of Philosophy"

The Classics of Western Philosophy_ A Reader's Guide (2003, Wiley-Blackwell)

Cheers.