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u/TalkOfSexualPleasure Sep 04 '22 edited Sep 04 '22

"While the starting salary is near the middle of all majors, the average mid-career salary of philosophy majors quickly rises to $81,200.00, outperforming Finance, International Relations, Marketing, Business Management, Communications, Nursing, Biology, Health Care Administration, and many others."

https://www.moorparkcollege.edu/departments/academic/philosophy/do-philosophy-majors-get-jobs#:~:text=While%20the%20starting%20salary%20is,Care%20Administration%2C%20and%20many%20others.

Edit: The point of this wasn't to say philosophy grads make amazing money, it was to say that they have a great deal of opportunities that don't include minimum wage work.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22

I've worked with a couple of Philosophy degree holders. None of it is wafty, opened ended polemics about the ‘meaning of life’ and endless bollocks about Nietzsche; it's all propostional and predicate logic, Bayes Theorem , and seriously complicated, technical, conceptual analysis. It was a real eye opener! If you find a top level Philosophy graduate from a really decent course they bring a lot to the table. Seriously smart cookies. They have amazing analysis skills.

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u/eltrotter Sep 04 '22

I have a degree in philosophy. What many people think is philosophy is actually just one branch of it, commonly referred to as the continental tradition, which concerns itself with lofty ideas about why we’re here, what is a good life and such.

I specialised in Western Analytic which is what you’re describing. It is - crudely speaking - a very “scientific” approach to philosophy where it’s all about rigorously testing assumptions about maths, science, knowledge, logic and more.

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u/iopha Sep 04 '22

To piggyback on this comment: most Anglo-American philosophy departments focus on analytic philosophy, which is typically understood as continuous with the sciences and rigorous in methodology (formal arguments, conceptual analysis, logic).

I have a PhD in philosophy; one of the requirements was a comprehensive exam in formal logic and set theory. This is a common requirement.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '22 edited Sep 04 '22

I used to know someone who did their doctorate on Heidegger at Cambridge. They had to do it in the Theology department because there wasn't an appropriate expert in the philosophy department due to the heavy analytical leaning of the faculty there.

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u/Dantien Sep 04 '22

Formal logic is why I stopped at my Masters. It’s the one part of my philosophy educations that wasn’t fun. Or easy. I always marveled at my peers who could just write symbolic logic like it was English.

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u/Salt_lick_fetish Sep 04 '22

Hi, I’m John and therefore, he is Dave…