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bilgramiIn which a Bwogger gets in way over his head.

It is relatively intuitive that the goal of any college student is to attain some sort of meaning from the classes they take, so I thought that Philosophy Professor Akeel Bilgrami's graduate seminar on the topic would be enlightening. I sidled into a Philosophy Hall penthouse this morning with twenty students, all sitting around an enormous oblong wooden table that seemed like it belonged in Bilgrami's Oxford alma mater.

The first few minutes of the class seemed relatively safe, going over administrative business and a brief introduction to the work of the main philosopher being studied, John McDowell. While I knew that my limited Core knowledge of philosophy would be insufficient for any real analysis of Frege's Puzzle or practical reason, Bilgrami's presentation of the concepts seemed dangerously simple and instinctive.


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