C. Thi Nguyen
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So I have no one to blame but myself.
I got into philosophy in,
Because I loved it.
I was supposed to be something else, you know?
Asian immigrants kid.
Doctor, at worst a lawyer, right?
I thought I was going to be bound for all kinds of other things.
I just kept getting pulled to these weird, fascinating questions.
Like, is beauty subjective?
Like, what is the meaning of life?
They were like big, like, how do I know anything?
Like, is there anything at the bottom of science that's like rock solid?
All this stuff.
I would like, had these big questions.
And then I went to philosophy grad school.
And in philosophy grad school, I encountered the rankings.
There are two rankings that people care about.
One is a ranking system of journals by status.
And the other is a ranking system of university departments by status.
They're on websites.