“for those of you who only arrive at this university, welcome; for those of you who have now become part of the furniture here, also welcome i guess.”
12 study points course, 1sp is ≈ 25-30h → 300 hours or 38 days!
“Writing is hard work!”
There’s going to be a pass/fail test on toledo for ‘phil skills’ → just do all the instructions, and if you fuck up you get an N/A “which means something like naaaah”
Also p/f on participation
If you can’t pass your thesis, you can’t pass your BA.
there will be 5 content sessions in the first semester, 1-2 feedback sessions, and have to watch the knowledge clips (philosophical skills bullshit)
Deadlines will be a bit different (everyone’s wrong)
1 March deadline for the first 1000 word; ‘full sentences’;
Try-out presentations two week before the actual presentation → the real presentation takes up 40% of the grade.
The paper itself takes 60%.
Presentations will be before Easter break.
Deadline 3000 words (also ‘full sentences’) by 30 April.
Paper itself
written in english 🤯
6250 - 7500 words; without including any of the metadata (no ToC, Bibliography, Footnotes).
Formal aspects (ToC, …, formatting) are important; make sure not to fuck that up.
Don’t go over/under word limit, -1 point per 500 word block out of limit.
Be careful with GenAI and shit
“You are not alone in this world; you can go to all kinds of places to find help”
Submission deadlines:
Friday 28 may 2027, 16:00 OR Monday 9 August 2027, 16:00
Analytical Phil and Logic
Millianism says →
A name in a sentences directly refers to an object;
but if we take this for granted, how do we deal with →
non-denoting names (“Sherlock Holmes” is not a real person, thus cannot be referred to)
Negative existentials “Pegasus does not exist”;
Basically this whole seminar will be dealing with names.
Phenomenology and PhilAnthro
Is work good or bad? Look at Hegel, Marx, Weil, Arendt, contemporary critical theorists → how do we deal with work.
r/antiwork
political philosophy
Looking at political philosophy, there are generally two types of texts - diagnostic, and normative texts.
The former is maybe moreso Marx, Arendt; The latter is, f.e., Rawls’ Theory of Justice
But how do we get from the theoretical to the ideal? Such things are usually not read in philosophy; and that’s kinda what Dr. Vervoort wants to study with us in the seminar.
We’re starting the seminar based on Envisioning Real Utopias. We will then go through my reading list, trying to temporarily leave the ivory tower of philosophy.