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Several friends of mine have done honours research in neuroscience (e.g. neuroimaging, neuroantomy/histology) and have found themselves working with a neuroscientist alongside a mathematician/statistician who does a lot of the number crunching and analysis.

Also, I find myself agreeing with Lord Winston (who I should note is also a Jew):

From an orthodox perspective they would both be labelled Jewish (i.e. by matrilineal descent).

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot <3

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot There was a little discussion of this a while back in the depression thread. I recall posting on ways of defining mental illness and causation/chemicals [/laziness].

There is a huge variation in course structure. This is best investigated on a uni by uni basis. Rest assured that all accredited medical schools have to meet set standards for accreditation. Currently this is assessed by the Australian Medical Council (though this could possibly change in the...

^ Short poppy.

You should be able to compare it to entry cut-offs for similar degrees. Some rules of thumb regarding prediction: courses with better career prospects (read: income/employment) will generally have higher cut-offs. Likewise, courses at perceived top universities (Usyd and to a lesser extent...

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot Perhaps I care about more than macroeconomic performance indicators ;)

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot Throughout Northern Europe?

Re: BOS political compass scatterplot Agreed. Economic Left/Right: -7.00 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.21

On logic: you probably use a naive/folk form of modal logic without realising it (modal --> dealing in possibility/necessity), but the subtleties which emerge through formalisation are quite interesting. Special logics which are interesting, but perhaps lest obviously useful, are paraconsistent...

If truth is unattainable, is this question answerable?

I am highly sympathetic to this idea. One thing I might suggest is that in some cases it is less language itself than the particular manner of use. It may be that the meaning of some parts of experience and the universe are amenable to metaphor but not to analysis in terms of necessary and...

Haha, a bit of both perhaps? I have never been a particularly dogmatic person (in so far as I tend to be open rather than rigid in the face of new ideas?), but at the same time I certainly think that philosophy has made me less dogmatic, especially with respect to the value of science...

Haha, correct, and well spotted. Personally I quite enjoy the self-devouring nature of critical philosophy. I find it worthwhile to cultivate a certain amount of comfort with uncertainty and incompleteness (in the technical logic sense, even). Perhaps this is what Sextus Empiricus (a...

On god, I will offer you a link to a recent post rather than retype something similar. Both politics and philosophy can be rigorous. I am tempted to say that philosophy has the potential to be more 'hardcore' but most philosophy departments in NSW only run few courses that I would toss into...

If you have a lot of smarts on your side then you can make a(n) (academic) career in the liberal arts. You can always compromise: lately I have been considering a split career --> finish medicine, specialise in a field which is potentially conducive to part time work (e.g. shift work in...

Philosophy suits me at the tertiary level because (1) I am earning a professional degree anyway, (2) BA(hons) in philosophy opens up the possibility of later higher research if I choose to do so, (3) a background in philosophy may help me to engage with the ethical and philosophical aspects of...

Also, I find it interesting that your approach to education in this case is to work towards justifying a personal conviction (similar to many entering a theological seminary?), compared to an exercise in open discovery.