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Saturday, March 24, 2012
APA Session Rule #3
If you walked in to the session so late that you heard at most half of the paper, you don't get to ask a question (unless no one else has one).
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Is there room to add this rule into somewhere? "Authors who choose to read their papers verbatim rather than talk through them will be served cold (but not iced) coffee."
Once saw someone doze through a good 5 minute section of a paper, addressing how philosopher X's views don't bear on the issue, and then proceed to ask why the author hadn't considered X's views. Wasn't at an APA, though. Does it still count?
In that case almost everyone will be served cold coffee. Most of us are hopelessly boring and can do no better than to read our papers verbatim like robots.
My favorite example (not at an APA): a philosopher, who shall remain nameless, rotated between three different talks, coming in and out of each room several times, and then asked a question at each talk, leaving right afterward to go to the next Q&A.
for those who missed the reference, 6:45 was referring to an upcoming Experimental philosophy conference, which on the CFP, states
"Both XPhi-friendly and XPhi-critical papers are welcomed, although XPhi-critical authors may be asked to sit at the back of the room. Authors who choose to read their papers verbatim rather than talk through them will be served cold (but not iced) coffee."
ugh. and some wonder why people get annoyed with X-Phi.
It's a good thing I like cold coffee. More than iced or hot, actually. So thank you. Of course I doubt there is enough coffee in the world to help me retain every important bit in my sinuously argued paper, which I wrote a year ago and can no longer remember.
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11 comments:
Is there room to add this rule into somewhere? "Authors who choose to read their papers verbatim rather than talk through them will be served cold (but not iced) coffee."
My favorite: guy comes in late, asks the first question without being called on, follows up with 3 minute response, then leaves early.
Once saw someone doze through a good 5 minute section of a paper, addressing how philosopher X's views don't bear on the issue, and then proceed to ask why the author hadn't considered X's views. Wasn't at an APA, though. Does it still count?
6:45:
In that case almost everyone will be served cold coffee. Most of us are hopelessly boring and can do no better than to read our papers verbatim like robots.
RE 6:45
If a conference has commentators for papers, as the APA does, I tend to read my paper verbatim for the benefit of the commenter.
My favorite example (not at an APA): a philosopher, who shall remain nameless, rotated between three different talks, coming in and out of each room several times, and then asked a question at each talk, leaving right afterward to go to the next Q&A.
CH:
Apparently you witnessed a parapathetic in action.
4: 12 FTW
for those who missed the reference, 6:45 was referring to an upcoming Experimental philosophy conference, which on the CFP, states
"Both XPhi-friendly and XPhi-critical papers are welcomed, although XPhi-critical authors may be asked to sit at the back of the room. Authors who choose to read their papers verbatim rather than talk through them will be served cold (but not iced) coffee."
ugh. and some wonder why people get annoyed with X-Phi.
9.30: yeah, if they're funny or even try to be funny of course we're gonna hate them.
It's a good thing I like cold coffee. More than iced or hot, actually. So thank you. Of course I doubt there is enough coffee in the world to help me retain every important bit in my sinuously argued paper, which I wrote a year ago and can no longer remember.
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