When I was in college, a philosophy degree was seen as excellent training for a career in Law.

wongarsu an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Both professions require writing detailed, overly specific, reasonably watertight arguments that will be read by only a handful of people, so that tracks

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datakan an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Arguments so watertight that none of them ever agree with each other and have argued for thousands of years without a resolution to even the most basic of questions.

	▲	programjames 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The appearance of a logical argument is easier to achieve and often good enough for their purposes (publishing papers, winning lawsuits).

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SoftTalker 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Using a vocabulary that is known only to themselves.

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palmotea 37 minutes ago | parent [-]

> Using a vocabulary that is known only to themselves.

So? Almost all professions have jargon known only to themselves. You think most people have any clue what a garbage collector is?

	▲	antonvs 22 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, after all.

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kriro 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But a law degree is probably even better. I know what you mean though, consulting companies also hire the (top 1-3%) philosophy majors and math/physics majors for the same reason. Good thought processes.

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keiferski 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Philosophy undergrad here and yeah I’d say law school was the typical next step. A few medical school as well.