I haven't done a lot of philosophy- the courses I did were pretty bollocks- but I've hung out in the philosophy department lots and chatted to people and read their books and it was much more interesting doing it that way than through courses. I assume high-level courses are most interesting and open structure as history which I did was like that- 1st year courses were all about teaching you historiographic techniques and overviews of subjects then by the time you get to 3rd year the class was just massive arguments in tutorials with maybe 1 irrelevant lecture in the week just to teach you the important background.
But that is quite a general complaint- lecturers doing things they are not interested in because you need to fill out the timetable and some things need to be taught. It just turns off the students and the lecturers. I've had to do tutorials in things I'm not at all interested in and it's a horrible experience all round.
Philosophy actually makes more sense in my mind than economics- a lot of which is just arbitrary assumptions, bullshit justifications and ridiculous starting and ending points whereas philosophy is just like "Throw out everything, it's all shit" as a starting point- but that's just me probably.
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