In good news<\/span>, my advisor pulled me aside Wednesday to say that the department wants to offer me funding for next year, granted that I\u2019d plan to complete the MA here. I\u2019m not 100% positive what it is exactly, but I only applied for the \u2018teaching assistantship\u2019 ($9000 plus a partial waiver of fees for the year), so I assume that\u2019s what it is. I\u2019ll know for sure tomorrow. If so it will mean giving up my wonderful work at the Center for Ethics, which is a bummer \u2013 but I can probably still TA a class on evolution with the director there in the fall.<\/p>\n The papers I\u2019m writing<\/span> are 1)<\/span> Sartre <\/span>(specific topic unknown \u2013 probably something with his ontology and personal identity, contrasted with the Kantian standpoint\u2026); 2) <\/span>Cosmology & Philosophy<\/span> \u2013 David Bohm<\/a> (He is a quantum physicist who\u2019s work led him into philosophy, into Eastern thought, and to become a \u201cguru of science\u201d for the Dalai Lama); and 3)<\/span> Ethics & Evolution<\/span> \u2013 Julian Huxley (He was a popularizer of evolutionary theory in the 1950s, brother of Aldous Huxley, and an avid humanist \u2013 his short essay, Transhumanism,<\/a> is worth a read).<\/p>\n sigh\u2026 Busy times are good in a way. I get a lot done with the daunting presence of imminent deadlines. I\u2019m sure my blood pressure suffers a bit for it; but at my age (a tender 25) I suppose I can still push myself through a few more cycles of insanity before settling down.<\/p>\n
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