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severnayazemlya:

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geometryofthoughts:

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thesublemon:

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lambdaphagy:

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davidsevera:

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ABOUT ME: In college I had literally eight different professors (I counted) who explained the prisoner\u2019s dilemma like we had never heard it before and were about to be initiated into some mind-blowing secret known only to a select elite.

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The same thing happened to me with Kuhn.\u00a0 I think I must have had it assigned at least five different times.

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I was once talking to a film major about this very subject and I asked her if there was an equivalent in her department, some masterpiece that every professor thought relevant to their course.\u00a0 She thought for a moment and replied, \u201cDie Hard.\u201d

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\u201cDie Hard?\u201d

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\u201cYeah, with Bruce Willis?\u00a0 Everyone makes us watch it.\u201d

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in art history it\u2019s \u201cart in the age of mechanical reproduction.\u201d

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In math it\u2019s Cantor and Godel and logical paradoxes, etc.

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In philosophy, it\u2019s Descartes, Hume, the social contract, and Kant, who each of my professors had a completely different interpretation of.

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In American Studies it was the 1893 Chicago World\u2019s Fair and the fact that theater audiences were traditionally expected to be loud and boisterous.

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