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Originally Posted by Patricia
Yes, he looks in need of both duct tape and WD40. (We love the smell of WD in the morning: it smells like poetry).
The questions ask students to analyse one of Descartes' proofs of the existence of God, his mind-body dualism (with particular reference to problems of interaction), Plato on mimesis, Hume on causality, Hume on ideas of the self... the usual stuff for a philosophy 101 course with an emphasis on metaphysics.
Actually, the students are doing quite well, so I've failed fewer than usual. But the handwriting is much worse than when I first started teaching, so the marking process is more chronophageous. (I've used that word in several memos already: thanks for mozzling it Zelda.) One of my colleagues has reacted to the strain of exam-marking by flying model helicopters around the lecture rooms, for diversion. Another has scheduled a near-continous set of meeting in his room, so that he has less time for marking. I am contemplating the purchase of a bottle of gin, though have resisted, so far. Instead, I am saying that I will mark 5 scripts, then play on the forum a bit.
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Don't do it Patricia! The cost in human sorrow is far too great for the brief surcease of suffering that it brings. Many lives have gone straight down the shitter (loo) from such attempts to numb oneself from the dreary mundanities of life.
Besides, gin is faster and you get a lot better crowd to hang out with than surfing MR.
