I’ve left the field of philosophy (where I was mostly so I could research what seemed interesting and not what the university wanted, as Chalmers puts it “studying the philosophy of x” where x is what interests me at any time) and am now in biological anthropology.
It seems that being a professor in non-philosophy fields is much easier than in philosophy, from my many years researching the topic. Also switching fields between undergrad and grad school is easy, in case someone reading this does not know.
Interesting. I’m sure you could carve out an interesting niche in that area. One immediately obvious issue in that area is how modern humans use various environmental resources. More distantly relevant issues that you might still be closer to than any other current EA academics would be different examples of the culture of science, or innovation, and human views on our place in relation to evolution, including transhumanism. I’m sure there are others.
I’ve left the field of philosophy (where I was mostly so I could research what seemed interesting and not what the university wanted, as Chalmers puts it “studying the philosophy of x” where x is what interests me at any time) and am now in biological anthropology. It seems that being a professor in non-philosophy fields is much easier than in philosophy, from my many years researching the topic. Also switching fields between undergrad and grad school is easy, in case someone reading this does not know.
Interesting. I’m sure you could carve out an interesting niche in that area. One immediately obvious issue in that area is how modern humans use various environmental resources. More distantly relevant issues that you might still be closer to than any other current EA academics would be different examples of the culture of science, or innovation, and human views on our place in relation to evolution, including transhumanism. I’m sure there are others.