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I've been pursuing philosophy since I was 15 (around 1989), when I read Descartes between classes in high school. I began my undergraduate studies registered in Carnegie Mellon University's Mathematics and Philosophy departments, but I didn't quite fit with either. CMU's Philosophy Department (under Teddy Seidenfeld) was too focused on computational linguistics for my tastes, and I wasn't so interested in memorizing mathematical formulae. I was easily seduced by talk of Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze in the English Department, and I ended up with a BA in Literary And Cultural Studies and a minor in Philosophy. In pursuit of the Continental tradition, I tried the Philosophy MA program at The New School For Social Research (under Richard Bernstein). However, I left the program midway through my third semester, depressed at the tedious and seemingly pointless life of academia it promised. I had no sense of what contemporary philosophy was about, or even if it had a pulse. I was unfortunately ignorant of and unjustly prejudiced against analytic philosophy. Since leaving school, I've pursued a better understanding of the analytic tradition. I've found particular inspiration in and a sense of camaraderie with the later Wittgenstein and Ryle. I'm currently trying to find the best way to go back to school. Contact info: jason.streitfeld at gmail dot com.
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