defended my dissertation this week!

rooftop59
rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
edited March 2011 in The Clubhouse
And I wanted you guys to now that you were no help whatsoever:eek:but a nice distraction.:wink:
Peace,
Paul
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited March 2011
    Best of luck!
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,713
    edited March 2011
    Glad to see that my absolute non-effort and total lack of input from this quarter didn't go to waste.

    Congrats !

    :smile:

    What was your dissertation on ?
    Sal Palooza
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    edited March 2011
    Thanks!

    It was on free will and moral responsibility and the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard. Not nearly as interesting as the info on this forum!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,765
    edited March 2011
    Kierkegaard was cool but...

    kantstopthemusic.gif
    http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=DC-KANT&Category_Code=DC#pic

    (FWIW, I actually have a Polk Audio-related story about my dissertation defense if anyone turns out to actually be interested)
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    edited March 2011
    That shirt is pretty cool i admit...but i HATE kant!
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    edited March 2011
    Btw whats the story?
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,765
    edited March 2011
    Well, first of all it was very rude of me not to congratulate you on your milestone! :-(
    It is, of course, a rite of passage - but an essential one, nonetheless!

    The story's not all that interesting, really, but it is Polk related.
    I was, needless to say, pretty wound up the day before mine (in November, 1986)... my colleague (and, subsequently, post-doc adviser) knew I was way too wound up to be hanging around the lab, so he said "I need some hifi equipment!" and we went over to Soundscape in Baltimore and spent the afternoon listening to stuff. He bought a NAD amplifier and CP player and a pair of whatever the then-current Monitor 7 version was (7B?)... and kept me from going nuts waiting for the next day!
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  • kingtut
    kingtut Posts: 813
    edited March 2011
    rooftop59 wrote: »
    And I wanted you guys to now that you were no help whatsoever:eek:but a nice distraction.:wink:
    Peace,
    Paul

    What is the subject/topic/major?

    Congrats on your PhD.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,765
    edited March 2011
    rooftop59 wrote: »

    It was on free will and moral responsibility and the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard. Not nearly as interesting as the info on this forum!

    there you have it.
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    edited March 2011
    I wish my director was into hifi...he is actually a classical guitarist but despite both being musicians we never got along that well. Oh well at least im done
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,765
    edited March 2011
    Mine postdoc adviser and his wife were patrons of the arts when they were in Baltimore (predominantly a group called Pro Musica Rara), and owned (and, presumably still own) a beautiful harpsichord made by a fellow called Rod Regier in Maine. My PhD adviser and his wife were both musicians (as was their son). Me? I play a hifi.

    But I digress...

    http://www.rjregierfortepianos.com/harpsichords/flemish.html
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited March 2011
    Good for you. Just what we need, another egghead with a stereo habit...
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited March 2011
    rooftop59 wrote: »
    Thanks!

    It was on free will and moral responsibility and the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard. Not nearly as interesting as the info on this forum!

    Congrats! Actually, "I" find this topic quite interesting, although not a philosopher--it's always been an interest of mine. As for trouble with Dissertation Advisors...tell me about it. I hardly ever talk to mine anymore and it's been a couple of decades--at least. He was the most asocial person I've ever met--knew a lot about the subject but left most of his 'humanity' behind?

    The better the Grad program the more class As in it. And I don't mean warm sounding musical amps? You should be relieved that you're OUT!

    Good work. Drop us, me, a line if and when the Diss. becomes a book. I'd like to read it!

    cnh
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,765
    edited March 2011
    amulford wrote: »
    Good for you. Just what we need, another egghead with a stereo habit...

    The best kind, if you ask me.
    I hope that they taught rooftop59 the Secret PhD Handshake!
    cnh wrote: »
    ... As for trouble with Dissertation Advisors...tell me about it. I hardly ever talk to mine anymore and it's been a couple of decades--at least. He was the most asocial person I've ever met--knew a lot about the subject but left most of his 'humanity' behind? ...

    cnh

    It's an endemic problem. My postdoc adviser had an explanation for the reason that so often a rift develops between mentor and mentee. Said he, "The problem is: you have to kill your supervisor." I.e., by definition, the student moves at least a little bit beyond the thinking/scope/expertise of his/her supervisor when the student publishes and defends his or her thesis. This can sometimes bring out the worst in folks (in my business, lab science, I think this is due to selection of folks with highly developed egos and poor social skills - a bad combination!).

    I had a transient falling-out with mine but time healed those wounds and we still correspond occasionally. He must be nearing retirement...


    EDIT: Speaking of misanthropic advisors... I would imagine that the PhDs, recent PhDs, and those still in boot camp are familiar with this... but... just in case some of you are not...
    http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    edited March 2011
    That for the congrats folks! definitely been a long road...

    cnh,
    you do anthropology is that right? I thought I saw that in another thread. Definitely a topic I am very interested in. A lot of my work revolves around issues in philosophical anthropology, what is distinctive about human agency. Of course you may not think that counts as anthropology, but nonetheless something I am interested in.
    Peace,
    Paul
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  • jinjuku
    jinjuku Posts: 1,523
    edited March 2011
    rooftop59 wrote: »
    And I wanted you guys to now that you were no help whatsoever:eek:but a nice distraction.:wink:
    Peace,
    Paul

    Did you make it through w/o revision or only minor revisions? Did your defense require a cognate? Congrats. As the supporting spouse of a PhD it was rough at times.
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    edited March 2011
    amulford wrote: »
    Good for you. Just what we need, another egghead with a stereo habit...

    Definitely what my wife thinks "we" need...:rolleyes:
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    edited March 2011
    jinjuku wrote: »
    Did you make it through w/o revision or only minor revisions? Did your defense require a cognate? Congrats. As the supporting spouse of a PhD it was rough at times.

    I have to take out or revise one sentence (really the problem is with the misuse of one term in one sentence), so I am pretty happy about that. I do have to format this beast over the next few days while teaching 3 classes, so that should be fun.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited March 2011
    rooftop59 wrote: »
    That for the congrats folks! definitely been a long road...

    cnh,
    you do anthropology is that right? I thought I saw that in another thread. Definitely a topic I am very interested in. A lot of my work revolves around issues in philosophical anthropology, what is distinctive about human agency. Of course you may not think that counts as anthropology, but nonetheless something I am interested in.
    Peace,
    Paul

    Good catch. That is right and I got to fight my way through the Postmodern 'turn' in the Social Sciences. What a crock that was--but for a while, it was like I couldn't say anything--wasn't allowed to speak. Because I'm pretty BIG on "AGENCY" and "Responsibility" and the criticism of TOTAL relativism--especially moral relativism unchained. I think there are 'soft' claims for certain basic 'human' understandings and conventions--perhaps not fully universal but workable solutions to the problems of dealing with others. A lot of my insights came from reading the 20th century dialogue that Japanese philosophers had with Continental Philosophy (I work on East Asia--with a China concentration). But yeah...all through Grad School I was the guy interested in the epistemological and ontological claims of most Anthro Theorists...or at least their assumptions...and then along came Foucault and the GLOVES were OFF! But enough of this non-audio drivel--I'm sure we're boring the guys!

    cnh
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  • jinjuku
    jinjuku Posts: 1,523
    edited March 2011
    rooftop59 wrote: »
    I have to take out or revise one sentence (really the problem is with the misuse of one term in one sentence), so I am pretty happy about that. I do have to format this beast over the next few days while teaching 3 classes, so that should be fun.

    Lol. That's great. My wife had a minor revision (a total of 5 sentences) that her chair took two weeks and four revisions to approve. Totally bizarre. We are talking like 100 words:confused:
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    edited March 2011
    cnh wrote: »
    Good catch. That is right and I got to fight my way through the Postmodern 'turn' in the Social Sciences. What a crock that was--but for a while, it was like I couldn't say anything--wasn't allowed to speak. Because I'm pretty BIG on "AGENCY" and "Responsibility" and the criticism of TOTAL relativism--especially moral relativism unchained. I think there are 'soft' claims for certain basic 'human' understandings and conventions--perhaps not fully universal but workable solutions to the problems of dealing with others. A lot of my insights came from reading the 20th century dialogue that Japanese philosophers had with Continental Philosophy (I work on East Asia--with a China concentration). But yeah...all through Grad School I was the guy interested in the epistemological and ontological claims of most Anthro Theorists...or at least their assumptions...and then along came Foucault and the GLOVES were OFF! But enough of this non-audio drivel--I'm sure we're boring the guys!

    cnh

    Coll stuff. One of my best friends did her dissertation and Marion and Levinas. I am actually co-teaching and interdisciplinary course in the social sciences right now, but the focus is more on sociology with some economics and political theory throw in. I really with we did more psychology and anthropology; oh well maybe next year. Speaking of which I have better get prepped for class!
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