BWA-HA-HA!!! More fun with philosophy, via Matthew Yglesias as usual. It’s hilarious even though I’m not at all familiar with the academic-insider thing it’s parodying. Rankings of various philosophy departments… such as:

The Lyceum has world-class faculty in Metaphysics, Ethics, Aesthetics, Mind, Politics, Logic, and the Motion of Animals. The fact that all of these faculty are Aristotle makes it hard to fill a dissertation committee.

University of Wittenberg, 1512 – 1521: Though the department has several “names,” including Phillip Melanchthon and Lucas Cranach, recent attention has focussed on Martin Luther, who retains the reputation of a major thinker despite the lukewarm reception afforded his recent treatise on The Freedom of a Christian Man. (For a useful and fair-minded critique of this ambitious book, see the 1520 Papal Bull threatening excommunication.) …The Wittenberg department boasts considerable success in placement, though the highest profile graduate to date — the Prince of Denmark — was a serious embarrassment. He is said to have complained that “there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy,” and his tenure at Elsinore ended in a massacre, leaving that department in receivership.

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