Although the metaphysics is my favourite out of the six, it has had the fewest enrolments. Currently, there is just one, Gregory Markish in Bethlehem Pennsylvania, a maths graduate who is finishing the philosophy of language programme and is just starting metaphysics. He is now applying for a place on a philosophy post-graduate programme. Pathways courses are for intelligent people, prepared to make the effort to grapple with sometimes difficult material. What makes the difference is the close supervision.
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I have discovered my vocation as a philosophy teacher very late in my career. I have always thought of myself as someone who had set out to push forward the boundaries of the subject. I think students do learn something doing philosophy this way. More may get frightened off, but less get bored. Re the question of 'answers in the text', I recently received quite a telling off from a student who also did the philosophy of language programme and has just started the philosophy of mind.